Fallback behavior on oracle failure
Marinade Finance's assessment for RD-F-051 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
No external oracle to fail in the traditional sense. For validator failure, Marinade's PSR bond provides epoch-level coverage: validators must post a bond as collateral protecting staker yield against downtime and commission changes. SAM removes underperforming validators at each epoch rebalancing cycle. However, if the off-chain delegation pipeline fails, underperforming validators cannot be removed for that epoch. Emergency pause feature was added in the 2023 upgrade (audited by Neodyme and Sec3) but guards against program-level attack, not specifically validator failure. No explicit fallback oracle or secondary data source documented.
Sources #
- DocsMarinade security pageMarinade security docs: 2023 Neodyme audit added emergency pause featureretrieved 2026-05-16
- Marinade SAM — PSR bond and validator removalMarinade SAM docs: PSR bond mandatory as collateral; validators removed each epoch rebalancing cycleretrieved 2026-05-16
Methodology #
Identify the declared fallback behavior (pause, secondary source, last-known-price, revert) when the primary oracle reverts or reports a stale value.
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