New ERC-20 approval to unverified contract from whale
Ethena's assessment for RD-F-096 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
EthenaMinting uses whitelisted minter addresses — retail user interactions are limited to sUSDe ERC-4626 vault deposits (verified contract). No reports of high-TVL user approval anomalies to unverified contracts in Ethena's interaction surface. The institutional minting gateway prevents unverified-contract approval attack vectors at the minting layer.
Sources #
- EtherscanStakedUSDeV2 | EtherscanStakedUSDeV2 (sUSDe) ERC-4626 vault — verified contract at 0x9D39A5DE30e57443BfF2A8307A4256c8797A3497retrieved 2026-04-28
Methodology #
Detect whether a top-TVL depositor grants a new token approval to an unverified contract that interacts with this protocol.
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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol ethena factor RD-F-096 score green collected_at 2026-04-28 13:58:51