Protocol-impersonator domain registered (typosquat)
Pendle Finance's assessment for RD-F-161 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
Protocol-impersonator domain (typosquat) (Cat 11). Threshold: typosquat of official domain registered within last 90 days. Confirmed phishing domain: pendle-finance.com, registered March 7, 2024 (>24 months before assessment — outside 90-day fire window per taxonomy). DV SSL via Let's Encrypt (as of search date). Flagged by ScamAdviser as high-scam-probability. Domain remains active as of 2026-04-29. Yellow: the domain exists and poses an ongoing phishing risk to users, even though its registration date is outside the 90-day threshold. Pendle's high brand recognition ($1.44B TVL) makes it a persistent phishing target.
Sources #
- URLpendle-finance.com ScamAdviserpendle-finance.com — DV SSL via Let's Encrypt, WHOIS registration March 7, 2024, flagged high-scam by ScamAdviserretrieved 2026-04-29
Methodology #
Determine whether a typosquat of the official protocol domain has been registered in the last 90 days.
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