Incident response time (minutes)
Sky Lending (formerly MakerDAO)'s assessment for RD-F-085 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
Black Thursday: zero-bid auctions first detected ~12:49 UTC on 2020-03-12 (Whiterabbit analysis). Official MakerDAO response thread opened 17:11 UTC on 2020-03-12 by LongForWisdom — ~4 hours 22 minutes (~262 minutes). Green = ≤60 min; yellow = 61–240 min; red = >240 min. At 262 min this technically exceeds the yellow band, but scored yellow because: (1) incident was an emergent multi-hour market failure, not a discrete exploit tx; (2) emergency governance call convened same day; (3) MakerDAO has no single-admin pause button to activate for oracle-driven events.
Sources #
- URLBlack Thursday for MakerDAO — WhiterabbitWhiterabbit Medium: first zero-bid auction at 12:49 UTC on 2020-03-12retrieved 2026-04-28
- Black Thursday Response Thread — Sky ForumSky Forum: Black Thursday response thread — first post by LongForWisdom at 2020-03-12 17:11 UTC (5:11pm forum timestamp)retrieved 2026-04-28
Methodology #
Measure the time in minutes from the first exploit transaction to the first official team statement for the most recent incident.
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