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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 #

  • Internal
    Venus Protocol REKT IV — pause actionsHacksdatabase venus-protocol-rekt4.md — THE market pause documentedretrieved 2026-04-28
  • URL
    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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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol venus factor RD-F-086 score yellow collected_at 2026-04-28 18:30:49