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Admin/upgrade transaction in mempool

ether.fi's assessment for RD-F-102 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Structurally applicable: EtherFiAdmin (0x0EF8fa4760Db8f5Cd4d993f3e3416f30f942D705) + EtherFiTimelock (0x9f26d4C958fD811A1F59B01B86Be7dFFc9d20761, getMinDelay=3600s) means upgrade txs traverse mempool with a 1-hour execution window. No unauthorized admin/upgrade txs observed. Rated yellow because the 1-hour timelock minimum compresses the mempool-observation signal window to a critically narrow span — any production monitoring of this signal must achieve sub-60-minute alert-to-human latency to be actionable. This is a structural constraint that reduces the protective value of the signal for this protocol.

Sources #

Methodology #

Detect an admin-role or upgrade transaction appearing in the mempool before confirmation.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol ether-fi factor RD-F-102 score yellow collected_at 2026-04-28 13:58:46