★ Empty cToken-style market (zero supply/borrow)
mETH Protocol's assessment for RD-F-070 — scored not_applicable on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
RD-F-070 is the critical (★) empty-cToken-market factor for the Compound V2 fork donation/share-inflation exploit pattern. mETH Protocol is an original-design Ethereum LST — not a Compound V2 fork and not any variant of a share-based lending market. There are no cToken-style markets to enumerate, no totalSupply==0 / totalBorrow==0 condition to evaluate, and no first-depositor share-inflation vector in the staking architecture. The exchange rate is determined by a committee oracle reporting aggregate validator ETH balances, not by a share/deposit accounting formula. N/A rationale: taxonomy §Category 4 explicitly marks F070 as Compound-fork-only; 00-profile.md §5 confirms original design with no fork lineage.
Sources #
- DocsmETH Exchange Rate Architecture — mETH Protocol DocsmETH staking architecture uses committee oracle (OracleQuorumManager) over Beacon Chain validator balances — no cToken/share-vault modelretrieved 2026-05-16
- Taxonomy Category 4 PD-024 note + mETH Protocol fork lineageTaxonomy §Category 4 note: RD-F-070 is Compound-fork-only (N/A for non-Compound-fork protocols); 00-profile.md §5: not forked / original, GitHub repo has no fork declarationretrieved 2026-05-16
Methodology #
Determine whether any listed Compound V2-fork market has `totalSupply == 0` and `totalBorrow == 0`, the precondition for a donation-exploit.
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