Post-exploit response score
Marinade Finance's assessment for RD-F-081 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
Post-exploit response scored on SAM incident: (1) Compensation partial — bid reduction penalty implemented, >500 SOL redistributed, full restitution not confirmed; (2) Transparency poor — no official Marinade post-mortem; disclosure community-sourced; Marinade leadership initially unresponsive per forum thread; (3) Root-cause analysis absent from Marinade team; (4) Operational recovery slow — ~18 months between incident onset (May 2024) and governance-level fix (MIP-19, Dec 2025). Composite score ~2/5. Yellow.
Sources #
- URLIncident Report: 37,000 SOL in Losses — Marinade Governance ForumCommunity incident report documenting poor initial response and lack of official post-mortemretrieved 2026-05-16
- MIP-19: Improving SAM — Marinade Governance ForumMIP-19 governance proposal — SAM mechanism fix (Dec 2025, ~18 months after incident onset)retrieved 2026-05-16
Methodology #
Curator-score (1–5) the most recent incident response on: compensation completeness, transparency of disclosure, root-cause analysis depth, and operational recovery speed.
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