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External keeper/relayer not redundant

Sky Lending (formerly MakerDAO)'s assessment for RD-F-062 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

OSM poke() and Spot poke() are permissionless keeper calls. Keeper failure under gas congestion caused Black Thursday 2020 operational failure. Liquidations 2.0 improved resilience. Risk reduced but not eliminated.

Sources #

  • URL
    https://blog.makerdao.com/the-market-collapse-of-march-12-2020-how-it-impacted-makerdao/retrieved 2026-04-27

Methodology #

Determine whether the protocol depends on a single keeper or relayer (Gelato, Chainlink Automation, custom) with no redundancy or failover.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol sky-lending factor RD-F-062 score yellow collected_at 2026-04-28 00:43:18