Circuit breaker on price deviation
Venus Protocol's assessment for RD-F-057 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
BoundValidator implements a soft circuit-breaker: if price deviation exceeds configured anchor ratio bands, that tier is rejected and next tier is tried. No hard circuit breaker (automatic market pause on >X% deviation). THE incident: BoundValidator rejected Binance feed for ~37 minutes then accepted convergence — it did not permanently block the inflated price once both sources agreed. No automatic market-pause trigger for sustained anomalies.
Sources #
- GovernanceTHE Market Incident Post-MortemTHE Post-Mortem — BoundValidator rejected then acceptedretrieved 2026-04-28
- BoundValidator.sol sourceBoundValidator.sol — anchorRatio bounds check, no circuit breakerretrieved 2026-04-28
Methodology #
Determine whether the protocol halts or reverts if the oracle-reported price deviates by more than X% from a reference within Y blocks.
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