Team other-protocol involvement history

Pendle Finance's assessment for RD-F-113 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

TN Lee: Kyber Network founding team member (Head of Business, 2+ years; reputable DEX, no rug history). Vu Nguyen: prior CTO and Lead Smart Contract Developer at Digix DAO (RWA gold tokenization protocol; no rug). UncleGrandpa925: ks-helper-sc (KyberSwap helper) — not a rug. Protocol launched as 'Benchmark' in 2020 before rebranding to Pendle — same team, continuous operation. Hacksdatabase has no Pendle-core entry. No team member has prior rug or exit-scam affiliation. Vu Nguyen's Digix-CTO history corroborated across multiple independent crypto-research outlets.

Sources #

URL
https://support.aibit.com/hc/en-001/articles/34887066479257-Aibit-Research-Institute-Comprehensive-Analysis-of-Pendle-Financeretrieved 2026-05-06
URL
TN Lee — People in crypto | IQ.wikiIQ.wiki TN Lee — Kyber Network historyretrieved 2026-04-29
Internal
Penpie rekt entry (confirms Pendle-core not in hacksdatabase as exploited protocol)Pendle hacksdatabase check — no Pendle-core entryretrieved 2026-04-29
URL
https://frontierlab.medium.com/pendle-a-severely-undervalued-new-defi-leader-e1088e34fff7retrieved 2026-05-06

Methodology #

Document current or prior protocol roles for team members (conflicts of interest, prior rugs, prior successful launches).

See the full factor methodology and distribution across all protocols →

rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol pendle factor RD-F-113 score green collected_at 2026-04-28 21:09:40