Pause activations (trailing 12 months)
Venus Protocol's assessment for RD-F-086 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
At minimum 2 documented pause activations in trailing 12 months (April 2025 – April 2026): (1) March 2026 THE incident — THE borrows/withdrawals paused, collateral factors zeroed on 6 markets; (2) September 2025 phishing incident — protocol paused to prevent attacker from moving phishing proceeds. Both pauses had documented reasons and operational rationale. Threshold: 1-2 pauses with documented reason = yellow. Score: yellow.
Sources #
- InternalVenus Protocol REKT IV — pause actionsHacksdatabase venus-protocol-rekt4.md — THE market pause documentedretrieved 2026-04-28
- Venus Protocol Fully Resumes After $27M Phishing ExploitCryptoTimes September 2025 — Venus paused protocol in phishing incident responseretrieved 2026-04-28
Methodology #
Count the number of deliberate pause activations with documented reason in the trailing 12 months.
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