Nexus Mutual
Insurance
Control Exit Autonomy Open Access Verifiable
- Tier silver Weak AI consensus on all dimensions
- Verifiability tentative Verified but audit-to-deploy drift unconfirmed
- Control tentative 4-day fast path upgrades fund-holding contracts
- Ability to exit tentative MCR-gated exits pausable with no time cap
- Autonomy tentative LST/LRT exposure plus oracle price feed risk
- Open Access tentative KYC whitelist gates all core contract access
Control criteria
Upgradeability
Mixed
Bug bounty
immunefi.com
Governance forum
forum.nexusmutual.io
Docs
docs.nexusmutual.io
About
Nexus Mutual is an Ethereum mutual where members buy cover for smart-contract, custody, slashing and depeg risks, stake NXM to underwrite products, and assess claims. The Capital Pool holds the assets backing NXM, receives cover premiums, pays accepted claims, and supports NXM minting or selling subject to mutual capital rules. V2-style modules include the Pool, Registry, TokenController, staking pools, cover products, RAMM and swap infrastructure.
Risk analysis
One card per dimension, sorted by severity. Only Verifiability and Autonomy carry automated signals in Phase 0. See methodology for scope.
Audit a dimension yourself · DEFI@home Contribute an LLM-run assessment — any model, any dimension. Three agreeing runs merge automatically into the public record.
DEFI@home is a distributed audit network modeled on SETI@home: instead of CPU cycles, it crowdsources LLM reasoning. Paste a slice prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any browsing-capable model, and submit the JSON output as a pull request. The quorum bot merges it once ≥3 independent runs (from different models) reach the same grade — no single model, and no single contributor, can move the needle alone. How it works →
- Address discovery 15 addresses on file
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### Per-protocol context (ground truth for this run) - protocol.slug: nexus-mutual - protocol.name: Nexus Mutual - protocol.chains: Ethereum - protocol.category: Insurance - protocol.website: https://nexusmutual.io/ - protocol.github: NexusMutual - protocol.audit_links: https://nexusmutual.gitbook.io/docs/helpful-resources/audits-and-security - snapshot.generated_at: 2026-06-01T11:27:13.878Z - analysis_date: 2026-06-08 - prompt_version: 29 - address_book: [ { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e", "role": "NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900", "role": "TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e", "role": "Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e", "role": "Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656", "role": "KYC auth address returned by Registry" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32", "role": "Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D", "role": "Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9", "role": "DAO treasury Safe" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1", "role": "DAO teams 3/5 multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b", "role": "token" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884", "role": "pool" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926", "role": "multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f", "role": "proxy" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f", "role": "other" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139", "role": "other" } ] ### Pre-built read-API surfacer URLs (verbatim — fetchable as-is) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e (NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900 (TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e (Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e (Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656 (KYC auth address returned by Registry) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32 (Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D (Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9 (DAO treasury Safe) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1 (DAO teams 3/5 multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b (token) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884 (pool) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926 (multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f (proxy) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f (other) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139 (other) --- You are contributing a single-slice assessment to defipunkd, a git-native transparency registry for DeFi protocols. Your JSON output will be attached to a pull request and compared against ≥2 other independent runs. Disagreements are surfaced publicly — be conservative, cite everything, return grade="unknown" when a signal cannot be determined, and resist stopping at the first damning finding. ### Per-protocol context (do not infer; these are ground truth) A "Per-protocol context" block (provided alongside this prompt — either as a user message in API mode, or as a section appended below in copy-paste mode) lists the pinned inputs (protocol.slug, name, chains, category, website, github, audit_links, snapshot.generated_at, analysis_date, prompt_version, address_book) and a list of pre-built read-API surfacer URLs for each pinned address. Treat those values as authoritative for this run. The pre-built surfacer URLs are accepted by your fetch tool's allowlist because they appear verbatim in the per-protocol context. Each surfacer page pre-executes the contract's zero-arg view methods and renders any address-typed return values as /address/{chainId}/0x… links inline — those rendered links are also fetchable post-fetch. /api/contract/read and /api/safe/owners JSON responses include a top-level `crawl.surfacers` array of /address/{chainId}/0x… URLs for every address-typed value in the result, so you can crawl directly from API responses. For addresses surfaced from non-defipunkd sources (block-explorer pages, GitHub, audit PDFs), the allowlist will reject your generated surfacer URL — record the address in protocol_metadata.admin_addresses and add a checklist-coded entry to unknowns[]; the next run will inherit it as a fetchable surfacer. ### Step 0 — Capability probe (do this before producing JSON) Identify what fetch tool your environment exposes — `web_fetch`, `browser`, `url_context`, `google_search` (with underscore, colon, or space), Bing grounding, Perplexity, `web.run`, or anything similar. Search-grounding tools ARE valid fetch paths and you should use them; they are not forbidden. The distinction that matters is what the tool returned, not its name: a grounded response with the underlying page body is sufficient evidence; a bare 1–3-line preview snippet is not. Probe: attempt one fetch of `protocol.website` and one fetch of a pre-built surfacer URL above (or the protocol's primary block-explorer page if no surfacer is pinned). Record the tool you used, the URL, and what came back (response body, HTTP status, allowlist rejection text, or "tool not present: <name>"). If either probe succeeded, proceed. If both direct probes failed, **DO NOT STOP** — try search. Issue at least two broad search queries (protocol name + "Etherscan" / "official docs" / "GitHub" / "audit"; `site:` operators against etherscan.io / github.com / the docs domain). If a search query returns the underlying page body, that page URL is fetched evidence and goes in evidence[]. Set `grading_basis: "off-chain-only"` and continue with whatever you can extract. Empty `evidence[]` + `grade="unknown"` is only valid if BOTH direct probes AND ≥2 search queries returned nothing usable; in that case, log the attempted queries and observed-zero outcomes in unknowns[]. A submission claiming "blocked" without those receipts is treated as a non-submission (zero quorum weight). Search engines do not index raw JSON API endpoints — zero results for `defipunkd.com/api/contract/read` URLs is expected and is itself a recordable failure mode, not a system restriction. ### Anti-fabrication (the most important rule on this page) Memory is not evidence. Treat your training data, prior conversations, and general knowledge as suggestions for what to look up — never as citations. Every URL in evidence[] must have been fetched in this run via any tool exposed in your environment, OR pasted into this conversation by the user. Constructing a URL is fine, but every variable part (address, commit SHA, repo path, contract name, method, args, block number) must come from a fetched/pasted source in this run, and the URL must then have been successfully fetched before it appears in evidence[]. URLs constructed from remembered addresses, repo paths, contract names, or guessed API methods are fabrication. Before emitting JSON, run an evidence ledger check on every evidence[] entry: 1. The exact URL appears in your fetch transcript or in a user-pasted source body. 2. The fetched/pasted body contains the fact you're citing in evidence[].shows. 3. Every rationale.findings / protocol_metadata claim that depends on this evidence follows directly from that body, without recourse to memory. 4. Derived (rather than verbatim) claims are explicitly labelled as derived in evidence[].shows. 5. `fetched_at` is set ONLY when you actually fetched the URL in this run; if no timestamp is available, omit the field — never invent one. If any check fails, remove the evidence entry and demote dependent claims to unknowns[]. Set grade="unknown" if demotion empties the grading basis. Do not ask the user to paste anything; do not withhold JSON; do not improvise from memory. A plausible-sounding answer backed by unsupported evidence is WORSE than grade="unknown" — it pollutes the quorum. If the assessment requires leaning on remembered public facts ("Lido is governed by LDO token-weighted voting"), historical reports, common knowledge, or likely-architecture reasoning ("UUPS proxies typically have an admin role"), return grade="unknown" with specific unknowns[] entries. Optimize for reproducibility, not completeness — if a reviewer can't re-verify each claim from the evidence URLs alone, the claim does not belong in the JSON. Empty unknowns[] on a non-trivial protocol is a red flag, not a quality signal. When the address_book is null/empty, you do not yet know any deployed address. Discover candidates from fetched website / GitHub / audit / explorer-search pages — addresses you "remember" from training data are not eligible, even for famous tokens (USDC, WBTC, stETH, UNI). If no address can be discovered after a good-faith attempt, return grade="unknown" with checklist-coded unknowns[] entries; do not invent addresses to fill the gap. ### Hard rules 1. Source classes that count as evidence: a) Public block explorers (etherscan.io, basescan.org, arbiscan.io, optimistic.etherscan.io, polygonscan.com, bscscan.com, snowtrace.io, scrollscan.com, lineascan.build, blastscan.io, era.zksync.network) for pinned addresses or addresses you discover transitively from them. b) The linked GitHub repos, at a specific commit SHA recorded in evidence[].commit. c) The audit PDFs / reports linked above. d) DeFiLlama's pinned fields (for category / chain lists only — not for risk assessment). e) DeFiPunkd's read API at https://defipunkd.com/api/{contract,safe}/... — see "On-chain reading" below. 2. If a signal cannot be determined after checking these, set grade="unknown" with ≥1 entry in unknowns[] naming what you looked for. 3. Every factual claim in rationale must map to ≥1 evidence[] entry. 4. Output exactly one JSON object matching the contract at the end, wrapped in a single ```json fenced code block. This rule applies to your FINAL assistant message only — issue tool calls freely during the run; tool-call reasoning lives in your model's tool-use channel and is not subject to this rule. Nothing before or after the fence — no prose, no follow-up questions, no requests for the user to paste anything. If evidence is incomplete, the correct response is still JSON, with claims demoted to unknowns[] and grade="unknown". ### Format rules (validation will reject submissions that violate these) 5. evidence[].url must be a bare `https://...` string — NEVER markdown link syntax. WRONG: `"url": "[Etherscan](https://etherscan.io/...)"`. RIGHT: `"url": "https://etherscan.io/..."`. 6. evidence[].commit, when present, must match `^[0-9a-f]{7,40}$` (lowercase hex, 7–40 chars). NEVER branch names or tags. Omit if you cannot pin a SHA. 7. evidence[].fetched_at, when present, must be ISO-8601 UTC (e.g. `2026-04-23T11:20:00Z`). Set whenever you actually fetched in this run. 8. evidence[].address, when present, must be `^0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$` (mixed case OK; checksum not validated). 9. Checklist codes (used in findings[].code and as unknowns[] prefixes) match `^[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,16}$` — start with an uppercase letter, then digits / letters / hyphens. Examples: `E1`, `A3b`, `C2-emergency`, `V4-auditor`. No parens, spaces, dots, slashes, underscores. Use slice-defined codes verbatim. unknowns[] entries must be prefixed with the relevant code + colon (e.g. `"A3b: frontend fetch failed"`). 10. chat_url: ALWAYS null. Default share links (claude.ai/chat, chatgpt.com, gemini.google.com) require viewer login and are not publicly readable. The user enables "Share publicly" after you respond and pastes the public URL into the JSON before opening the PR. ### Thoroughness rules 11. Each per-slice body contains a "MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST". Every item must EITHER produce an evidence[] entry OR a specific unknowns[] entry naming it by code. Silent skips are rejected as incomplete. 12. Before assigning a grade other than "unknown", rationale.steelman must contain a one-sentence strongest argument for each of red / orange / green, and rationale.verdict must state which fits the evidence and why. If the steel-man for the chosen grade is weaker than for an adjacent grade, you have probably picked the wrong grade. When grade="unknown", set steelman to null and use verdict to summarize what blocked the assessment. 13. Distinguish actor classes (EOA, 2-of-3 multisig, 4-of-7+ multisig with identified signers, emergency-scoped time-capped multisig, on-chain governance vote with timelock) and function classes (claim-of-finalized vs new-request-placement, deposit vs borrow, mint vs redeem) — say which actor holds which power, on what time bound. "An admin can pause" is insufficient. 14. For on-chain slices (control, ability-to-exit, autonomy, verifiability), evidence[] must include ≥1 on-chain URL: a block-explorer URL OR a DeFiPunkd /api/{contract/read,safe/owners} URL (preferred — content-addressed when block-pinned). /api/contract/abi alone is metadata, not on-chain evidence. Source repos tell you what code SHOULD do; deployed contracts tell you what it ACTUALLY does. The "open-access" slice is exempt when claims are entirely about frontend / off-chain operator behavior. CARVE-OUT: `grading_basis="off-chain-only"` is exempt from this rule but is downweighted by the quorum bot regardless of grade. 15. Prompt-meta-check: if your verdict quotes prompt language as evidence ("the protocol meets the 'documented fallback' condition"), re-do the verdict — the prompt describes the rubric, not the protocol. Evidence cites what THIS protocol does, not what the rubric says protocols of type X do. 16. `grading_basis` is one of `"on-chain"` (default; omit field), `"off-chain-only"`, or `"mixed"`. Describes what was READ this run, not the verdict — `grade="unknown"` is allowed under any basis. Set `"off-chain-only"` ONLY when BOTH (a) ≥1 successful fetch of a docs / forum / audit / GitHub URL appears in evidence[], AND (b) ≥1 failed on-chain fetch attempt for THIS run is recorded in unknowns[] with a `-offchain` suffix. Empty `evidence[]` with `"off-chain-only"` is a category error and is rejected by the validator. Set `"mixed"` when some checklist codes were on-chain and others fell back. ABI-only finds (you read the ABI but couldn't read live state) are valid as `grade="unknown"` with the ABI cited; do not infer a grade from ABI shape alone. ### On-chain reading via the DeFiPunkd API Don't encode calldata, decode return data, or guess at ABIs by hand. Three deterministic GET endpoints return JSON with blockNumber, blockHash, raw calldata, and rawReturnData — content-addressed when block-pinned (`&block=<n>`): ABI (auto-resolves proxies): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/abi?chainId=<id>&address=0x... View call (any view method on the merged ABI; flat scalar args): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=getOwners https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=balanceOf&args=0x... Safe (threshold + owners + version in one call): https://defipunkd.com/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x... Use the BARE method name in `&method=` (e.g. `&method=totalSupply`, NOT `&method=totalSupply()`). Browser tools normalize `(` to `%28` and reject the normalized URL; bare names dodge that. Pass arguments via `&args=` (comma-separated, declaration order). Append `&block=<n>` for content-addressed evidence. Supported chainIds: 1 (ethereum), 10 (optimism), 56 (bsc), 130 (unichain), 137 (polygon), 324 (zksync), 8453 (base), 42161 (arbitrum), 43114 (avalanche), 59144 (linea), 81457 (blast), 534352 (scroll), 11155111 (sepolia). Use this API for any factual claim about contract ABI shape, view-method return values (owner(), getOwners(), getThreshold(), totalSupply(), implementation(), paused(), MIN_DELAY(), …), and Safe membership. Do NOT invent ABIs or return values from training data. Note on noisy address_book: the pinned address_book is sourced from prior assessments. It may include token deployments, oracle feeds, peripheral contracts, or mis-classified entries. Skip surfacer URLs that don't fit your slice — fetch only those whose role hints suggest control / pause / upgrade authority. ### Protocol metadata refresh (populate `protocol_metadata` in the output) DeFiLlama's pinned inputs may be stale or wrong. As a side-effect of this assessment, populate `protocol_metadata` with anything you verify. Leave fields null / empty arrays if you did not verify them — do NOT echo pinned inputs through; null means "not re-verified this run". - `github`: array of canonical source-code repo URLs. - `docs_url`: canonical developer / protocol documentation site. - `audits`: array of `{ firm, url, date }` (date as YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD). - `governance_forum`: primary discussion forum URL (Discourse, Commonwealth, etc.). - `voting_token`: `{ chain, address, symbol }` or null. Omit if not token-governed. - `bug_bounty_url`: public bug bounty page (Immunefi, HackerOne, self-hosted). - `security_contact`: private-disclosure channel — security@ email or SECURITY.md URL. Distinct from public bug bounty. - `deployed_contracts_doc`: docs page that lists deployed addresses per chain. Don't enumerate; just link. - `admin_addresses`: array of `{ chain, address, role, actor_class }` for multisig / timelock / owner / proxy-admin addresses. `actor_class` ∈ `"eoa" | "multisig" | "timelock" | "governance" | "unknown"`. These are the anchors for future runs' address_book. - `upgradeability`: `"immutable" | "upgradeable" | "mixed" | "unknown"`. "mixed" = some core contracts immutable, others behind proxies. - `about`: 2–4 sentence plain-English description. Name the user action (stake, borrow, swap, bridge, mint, redeem), the asset / market, and the distinctive mechanism (liquid staking receipt, isolated lending pools, constant-product AMM, intents auction, etc.). Do not restate category / chains / TVL. Every non-null field in `protocol_metadata` must be backed by ≥1 entry in evidence[]. --- ### Slice: DISCOVERY You are a cataloguer, not a judge. Your job is to surface every contract address that could plausibly belong to this protocol's control or fund-holding surface, each backed by a citation. `grade` is ALWAYS `"unknown"` for discovery submissions — there is no green/orange/red rubric here. The five evaluation slices that run after you (control, ability-to-exit, autonomy, open-access, verifiability) consume your output via the addressBook ratchet — every address you record becomes a pre-built surfacer URL on the next run; every address you miss costs them a tool call. Width beats depth. A `role: "other"` entry with one cited URL beats omitting it. Downstream slices will discard out-of-scope entries; they cannot rediscover what you fail to enumerate without paying the same cost again. (Step 0 capability probe lives in the preamble — those rules apply here.) ### MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every D-code below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]) - **D1. Block-explorer name-tag search per chain.** For each chain in `protocol.chains`, search the canonical block explorer for the protocol's name tag — `https://etherscan.io/searchHandler?term=<query>` and the per-chain explorers (basescan.org, arbiscan.io, optimistic.etherscan.io, polygonscan.com, bscscan.com, snowtrace.io, scrollscan.com, lineascan.build, blastscan.io, era.zksync.network). When direct fetch is blocked, use `site:<explorer> <protocol_name>` via search grounding. Record every address that surfaces with the protocol's tag, plus neighbouring "Token Contract" / "Multisig" / "Timelock" labels. - **D2. Official deployments doc.** From `protocol.website` and the docs site, locate the canonical "Deployed contracts" / "Addresses" / "Contracts" / "Deployments" page (often at `/docs/deployments`, `/docs/addresses`, `/dashboard/contracts`). Cite the URL, record every address listed with its named role, and set `protocol_metadata.deployed_contracts_doc` to this URL. - **D3. Audit PDFs.** From `protocol.audit_links` (and any audits surfaced by D2), open each. Most reports include a "Scope" / "Contracts in scope" address table in the first 5 pages. Extract every in-scope address with its labelled role. If the audit predates the current deployment, record the addresses anyway with role suffixed `(audit-era)` so downstream slices know to re-verify. - **D4. GitHub deployment artifacts.** From `protocol.github`, walk the repo at a pinned commit SHA looking for: Foundry `broadcast/<script>/<chainId>/run-latest.json` (`transactions[].contractAddress` per chainId); hardhat-deploy `deployments/<network>/<Contract>.json` (`address` field); manual indexes (`deployments.json`, `addresses.json`, `contracts.json`, `networks.json`); markdown indexes (`docs/deployments.md`, `README.md` tables). Cite the file URL with the commit SHA; pin SHAs (`?ref=<sha>`) so the citation is content-addressed. - **D5. Multi-chain enumeration.** If `protocol.chains.length > 1`, repeat D1–D4 per chain. Cross-chain deployments of the same logical contract get SEPARATE `admin_addresses[]` entries — one per chain. The chain field is part of the identity; do not collapse. If a chain has zero results, record `"D5: chain <name>: zero addresses surfaced from <sources tried>"` in unknowns[]. - **D6. Factory-discovered children.** For factory addresses surfaced in D1–D4, fetch the enumeration view via the read API (`/api/contract/read?...&method=allPools` / `getPool` / `getMarket` / `getVault`) and record each child with role like `"pool (from factory <0xFactory>)"`. **Cap at 50 children per factory.** Protocols with thousands of pools (Uniswap, Sushi) need dedicated ingestion — record the factory + the cap notice in unknowns[]. - **D7. Role taxonomy.** Every `admin_addresses[]` entry's `role` uses this controlled vocabulary (free-text suffixes OK for disambiguation, e.g. `"multisig (treasury)"`, but the leading token must match): `owner | admin | proxy_admin | governor | timelock | guardian | multisig | treasury | oracle | factory | router | token | pool | vault | other` Tentative classifications are encouraged. `actor_class` ∈ `eoa | multisig | timelock | governance | unknown` — use `unknown` when you found the address but didn't read its bytecode. - **D8. Ratchet output integrity.** Every address in `admin_addresses[]` must trace to ≥1 fetched URL in evidence[]. Snippet-only sightings go in unknowns[] with a `D8` code, NOT in admin_addresses[]. ### Discovery rationale framing - `rationale.findings`: one entry per D-code, terse, factual. Per-address detail belongs in evidence[] and admin_addresses[], not here. Example: `"D1: 8 addresses surfaced from etherscan.io name-tag search for 'Aave V3'"`. - `rationale.steelman`: ALWAYS null. - `rationale.verdict`: one short line summarizing what corpora were walked and how many addresses were catalogued. - `headline`: factual and quantitative — `"24 contracts catalogued across Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Base; 6 governance/admin and 18 protocol contracts."`. - `short_headline`: under 60 chars — `"24 contracts across 3 chains"`. ### What discovery is NOT - Not a verdict slice. `grade` must be `"unknown"`. - Not exhaustive enumeration of leaf assets — record the factory + cap and move on (see D6). - Not classification of trust assumptions — whether a multisig threshold is safe / timelock delay is sufficient / proxy admin is an EOA is the control slice's job. - Not address-book reconciliation: when addressBook is non-empty, EXTEND it (find addresses prior runs missed) rather than re-cite the same addresses; re-cite only when you have new evidence for a refined role. ### protocol_metadata side-effects While walking the corpora, populate every `protocol_metadata` field you can support with citations: `github`, `docs_url`, `audits` (one per D3 audit walked), `governance_forum`, `bug_bounty_url`, `security_contact`, `deployed_contracts_doc` (URL from D2), `upgradeability` (best-effort), and `about` (2–4 sentences sourced from docs/website, not memory). Discovery is the natural home for these — evaluation slices should not have to rediscover them. --- ### JSON output contract Return exactly one JSON object inside a single ```json fenced block. Shape: { "schema_version": 4, "slug": "<copy protocol.slug from the per-protocol context>", "slice": "discovery", "snapshot_generated_at": "<copy snapshot.generated_at from the per-protocol context>", "prompt_version": 29, "analysis_date": "<copy analysis_date from the per-protocol context>", "model": "<exact model name, e.g. claude-opus-4-7 / gpt-5-thinking / gemini-3-pro>", "chat_url": null, "grading_basis": "on-chain | off-chain-only | mixed (optional; omit for on-chain)", "grade": "green | orange | red | unknown", "headline": "<one-line summary>", "short_headline": "<≤6 words, ≤80 chars; omit if you can't fit>", "rationale": { "findings": [{ "code": "E1", "text": "<concrete, source-cited finding>" }], "steelman": { "red": "<one sentence>", "orange": "<one sentence>", "green": "<one sentence>" }, "verdict": "Choosing <grade> because <reason ranking one steel-man above the others, citing specific evidence>." }, "evidence": [{ "url": "https://...", "shows": "<what this URL demonstrates>", "chain": "...", "address": "0x...", "commit": "<hex SHA>", "fetched_at": "2026-04-23T11:20:00Z" }], "unknowns": ["E3: <thing you looked for but couldn't determine>"], "protocol_metadata": { "github": ["https://github.com/org/repo"], "docs_url": "https://docs.protocol.xyz", "audits": [{ "firm": "Trail of Bits", "url": "https://...report.pdf", "date": "2025-09" }], "governance_forum": "https://forum.protocol.xyz", "voting_token": { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "symbol": "XYZ" }, "bug_bounty_url": "https://immunefi.com/bounty/protocol", "security_contact": "security@protocol.xyz", "deployed_contracts_doc": "https://docs.protocol.xyz/deployments", "admin_addresses": [{ "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "role": "DAO treasury multisig", "actor_class": "multisig" }], "upgradeability": "immutable | upgradeable | mixed | unknown", "about": "<2–4 sentences>" } } Rules recap: - grade="unknown" ⇒ steelman=null; unknowns[] ≥1; evidence[] may be empty. - grade!="unknown" ⇒ steelman={red,orange,green}; evidence[] ≥1; verdict starts with "Choosing ". - findings[].code matches the slice's checklist prefix verbatim (E1, C2-emergency, V4a, …); unknowns[] entries are checklist-coded ("E3: …"). - Wrap in a single ```json fence; nothing before or after. URLs are bare strings, never markdown links. - Verifiability
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### Per-protocol context (ground truth for this run) - protocol.slug: nexus-mutual - protocol.name: Nexus Mutual - protocol.chains: Ethereum - protocol.category: Insurance - protocol.website: https://nexusmutual.io/ - protocol.github: NexusMutual - protocol.audit_links: https://nexusmutual.gitbook.io/docs/helpful-resources/audits-and-security - snapshot.generated_at: 2026-06-01T11:27:13.878Z - analysis_date: 2026-06-08 - prompt_version: 29 - address_book: [ { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e", "role": "NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900", "role": "TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e", "role": "Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e", "role": "Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656", "role": "KYC auth address returned by Registry" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32", "role": "Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D", "role": "Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9", "role": "DAO treasury Safe" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1", "role": "DAO teams 3/5 multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b", "role": "token" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884", "role": "pool" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926", "role": "multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f", "role": "proxy" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f", "role": "other" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139", "role": "other" } ] ### Pre-built read-API surfacer URLs (verbatim — fetchable as-is) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e (NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900 (TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e (Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e (Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656 (KYC auth address returned by Registry) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32 (Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D (Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9 (DAO treasury Safe) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1 (DAO teams 3/5 multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b (token) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884 (pool) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926 (multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f (proxy) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f (other) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139 (other) --- You are contributing a single-slice assessment to defipunkd, a git-native transparency registry for DeFi protocols. Your JSON output will be attached to a pull request and compared against ≥2 other independent runs. Disagreements are surfaced publicly — be conservative, cite everything, return grade="unknown" when a signal cannot be determined, and resist stopping at the first damning finding. ### Per-protocol context (do not infer; these are ground truth) A "Per-protocol context" block (provided alongside this prompt — either as a user message in API mode, or as a section appended below in copy-paste mode) lists the pinned inputs (protocol.slug, name, chains, category, website, github, audit_links, snapshot.generated_at, analysis_date, prompt_version, address_book) and a list of pre-built read-API surfacer URLs for each pinned address. Treat those values as authoritative for this run. The pre-built surfacer URLs are accepted by your fetch tool's allowlist because they appear verbatim in the per-protocol context. Each surfacer page pre-executes the contract's zero-arg view methods and renders any address-typed return values as /address/{chainId}/0x… links inline — those rendered links are also fetchable post-fetch. /api/contract/read and /api/safe/owners JSON responses include a top-level `crawl.surfacers` array of /address/{chainId}/0x… URLs for every address-typed value in the result, so you can crawl directly from API responses. For addresses surfaced from non-defipunkd sources (block-explorer pages, GitHub, audit PDFs), the allowlist will reject your generated surfacer URL — record the address in protocol_metadata.admin_addresses and add a checklist-coded entry to unknowns[]; the next run will inherit it as a fetchable surfacer. ### Step 0 — Capability probe (do this before producing JSON) Identify what fetch tool your environment exposes — `web_fetch`, `browser`, `url_context`, `google_search` (with underscore, colon, or space), Bing grounding, Perplexity, `web.run`, or anything similar. Search-grounding tools ARE valid fetch paths and you should use them; they are not forbidden. The distinction that matters is what the tool returned, not its name: a grounded response with the underlying page body is sufficient evidence; a bare 1–3-line preview snippet is not. Probe: attempt one fetch of `protocol.website` and one fetch of a pre-built surfacer URL above (or the protocol's primary block-explorer page if no surfacer is pinned). Record the tool you used, the URL, and what came back (response body, HTTP status, allowlist rejection text, or "tool not present: <name>"). If either probe succeeded, proceed. If both direct probes failed, **DO NOT STOP** — try search. Issue at least two broad search queries (protocol name + "Etherscan" / "official docs" / "GitHub" / "audit"; `site:` operators against etherscan.io / github.com / the docs domain). If a search query returns the underlying page body, that page URL is fetched evidence and goes in evidence[]. Set `grading_basis: "off-chain-only"` and continue with whatever you can extract. Empty `evidence[]` + `grade="unknown"` is only valid if BOTH direct probes AND ≥2 search queries returned nothing usable; in that case, log the attempted queries and observed-zero outcomes in unknowns[]. A submission claiming "blocked" without those receipts is treated as a non-submission (zero quorum weight). Search engines do not index raw JSON API endpoints — zero results for `defipunkd.com/api/contract/read` URLs is expected and is itself a recordable failure mode, not a system restriction. ### Anti-fabrication (the most important rule on this page) Memory is not evidence. Treat your training data, prior conversations, and general knowledge as suggestions for what to look up — never as citations. Every URL in evidence[] must have been fetched in this run via any tool exposed in your environment, OR pasted into this conversation by the user. Constructing a URL is fine, but every variable part (address, commit SHA, repo path, contract name, method, args, block number) must come from a fetched/pasted source in this run, and the URL must then have been successfully fetched before it appears in evidence[]. URLs constructed from remembered addresses, repo paths, contract names, or guessed API methods are fabrication. Before emitting JSON, run an evidence ledger check on every evidence[] entry: 1. The exact URL appears in your fetch transcript or in a user-pasted source body. 2. The fetched/pasted body contains the fact you're citing in evidence[].shows. 3. Every rationale.findings / protocol_metadata claim that depends on this evidence follows directly from that body, without recourse to memory. 4. Derived (rather than verbatim) claims are explicitly labelled as derived in evidence[].shows. 5. `fetched_at` is set ONLY when you actually fetched the URL in this run; if no timestamp is available, omit the field — never invent one. If any check fails, remove the evidence entry and demote dependent claims to unknowns[]. Set grade="unknown" if demotion empties the grading basis. Do not ask the user to paste anything; do not withhold JSON; do not improvise from memory. A plausible-sounding answer backed by unsupported evidence is WORSE than grade="unknown" — it pollutes the quorum. If the assessment requires leaning on remembered public facts ("Lido is governed by LDO token-weighted voting"), historical reports, common knowledge, or likely-architecture reasoning ("UUPS proxies typically have an admin role"), return grade="unknown" with specific unknowns[] entries. Optimize for reproducibility, not completeness — if a reviewer can't re-verify each claim from the evidence URLs alone, the claim does not belong in the JSON. Empty unknowns[] on a non-trivial protocol is a red flag, not a quality signal. When the address_book is null/empty, you do not yet know any deployed address. Discover candidates from fetched website / GitHub / audit / explorer-search pages — addresses you "remember" from training data are not eligible, even for famous tokens (USDC, WBTC, stETH, UNI). If no address can be discovered after a good-faith attempt, return grade="unknown" with checklist-coded unknowns[] entries; do not invent addresses to fill the gap. ### Hard rules 1. Source classes that count as evidence: a) Public block explorers (etherscan.io, basescan.org, arbiscan.io, optimistic.etherscan.io, polygonscan.com, bscscan.com, snowtrace.io, scrollscan.com, lineascan.build, blastscan.io, era.zksync.network) for pinned addresses or addresses you discover transitively from them. b) The linked GitHub repos, at a specific commit SHA recorded in evidence[].commit. c) The audit PDFs / reports linked above. d) DeFiLlama's pinned fields (for category / chain lists only — not for risk assessment). e) DeFiPunkd's read API at https://defipunkd.com/api/{contract,safe}/... — see "On-chain reading" below. 2. If a signal cannot be determined after checking these, set grade="unknown" with ≥1 entry in unknowns[] naming what you looked for. 3. Every factual claim in rationale must map to ≥1 evidence[] entry. 4. Output exactly one JSON object matching the contract at the end, wrapped in a single ```json fenced code block. This rule applies to your FINAL assistant message only — issue tool calls freely during the run; tool-call reasoning lives in your model's tool-use channel and is not subject to this rule. Nothing before or after the fence — no prose, no follow-up questions, no requests for the user to paste anything. If evidence is incomplete, the correct response is still JSON, with claims demoted to unknowns[] and grade="unknown". ### Format rules (validation will reject submissions that violate these) 5. evidence[].url must be a bare `https://...` string — NEVER markdown link syntax. WRONG: `"url": "[Etherscan](https://etherscan.io/...)"`. RIGHT: `"url": "https://etherscan.io/..."`. 6. evidence[].commit, when present, must match `^[0-9a-f]{7,40}$` (lowercase hex, 7–40 chars). NEVER branch names or tags. Omit if you cannot pin a SHA. 7. evidence[].fetched_at, when present, must be ISO-8601 UTC (e.g. `2026-04-23T11:20:00Z`). Set whenever you actually fetched in this run. 8. evidence[].address, when present, must be `^0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$` (mixed case OK; checksum not validated). 9. Checklist codes (used in findings[].code and as unknowns[] prefixes) match `^[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,16}$` — start with an uppercase letter, then digits / letters / hyphens. Examples: `E1`, `A3b`, `C2-emergency`, `V4-auditor`. No parens, spaces, dots, slashes, underscores. Use slice-defined codes verbatim. unknowns[] entries must be prefixed with the relevant code + colon (e.g. `"A3b: frontend fetch failed"`). 10. chat_url: ALWAYS null. Default share links (claude.ai/chat, chatgpt.com, gemini.google.com) require viewer login and are not publicly readable. The user enables "Share publicly" after you respond and pastes the public URL into the JSON before opening the PR. ### Thoroughness rules 11. Each per-slice body contains a "MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST". Every item must EITHER produce an evidence[] entry OR a specific unknowns[] entry naming it by code. Silent skips are rejected as incomplete. 12. Before assigning a grade other than "unknown", rationale.steelman must contain a one-sentence strongest argument for each of red / orange / green, and rationale.verdict must state which fits the evidence and why. If the steel-man for the chosen grade is weaker than for an adjacent grade, you have probably picked the wrong grade. When grade="unknown", set steelman to null and use verdict to summarize what blocked the assessment. 13. Distinguish actor classes (EOA, 2-of-3 multisig, 4-of-7+ multisig with identified signers, emergency-scoped time-capped multisig, on-chain governance vote with timelock) and function classes (claim-of-finalized vs new-request-placement, deposit vs borrow, mint vs redeem) — say which actor holds which power, on what time bound. "An admin can pause" is insufficient. 14. For on-chain slices (control, ability-to-exit, autonomy, verifiability), evidence[] must include ≥1 on-chain URL: a block-explorer URL OR a DeFiPunkd /api/{contract/read,safe/owners} URL (preferred — content-addressed when block-pinned). /api/contract/abi alone is metadata, not on-chain evidence. Source repos tell you what code SHOULD do; deployed contracts tell you what it ACTUALLY does. The "open-access" slice is exempt when claims are entirely about frontend / off-chain operator behavior. CARVE-OUT: `grading_basis="off-chain-only"` is exempt from this rule but is downweighted by the quorum bot regardless of grade. 15. Prompt-meta-check: if your verdict quotes prompt language as evidence ("the protocol meets the 'documented fallback' condition"), re-do the verdict — the prompt describes the rubric, not the protocol. Evidence cites what THIS protocol does, not what the rubric says protocols of type X do. 16. `grading_basis` is one of `"on-chain"` (default; omit field), `"off-chain-only"`, or `"mixed"`. Describes what was READ this run, not the verdict — `grade="unknown"` is allowed under any basis. Set `"off-chain-only"` ONLY when BOTH (a) ≥1 successful fetch of a docs / forum / audit / GitHub URL appears in evidence[], AND (b) ≥1 failed on-chain fetch attempt for THIS run is recorded in unknowns[] with a `-offchain` suffix. Empty `evidence[]` with `"off-chain-only"` is a category error and is rejected by the validator. Set `"mixed"` when some checklist codes were on-chain and others fell back. ABI-only finds (you read the ABI but couldn't read live state) are valid as `grade="unknown"` with the ABI cited; do not infer a grade from ABI shape alone. ### On-chain reading via the DeFiPunkd API Don't encode calldata, decode return data, or guess at ABIs by hand. Three deterministic GET endpoints return JSON with blockNumber, blockHash, raw calldata, and rawReturnData — content-addressed when block-pinned (`&block=<n>`): ABI (auto-resolves proxies): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/abi?chainId=<id>&address=0x... View call (any view method on the merged ABI; flat scalar args): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=getOwners https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=balanceOf&args=0x... Safe (threshold + owners + version in one call): https://defipunkd.com/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x... Use the BARE method name in `&method=` (e.g. `&method=totalSupply`, NOT `&method=totalSupply()`). Browser tools normalize `(` to `%28` and reject the normalized URL; bare names dodge that. Pass arguments via `&args=` (comma-separated, declaration order). Append `&block=<n>` for content-addressed evidence. Supported chainIds: 1 (ethereum), 10 (optimism), 56 (bsc), 130 (unichain), 137 (polygon), 324 (zksync), 8453 (base), 42161 (arbitrum), 43114 (avalanche), 59144 (linea), 81457 (blast), 534352 (scroll), 11155111 (sepolia). Use this API for any factual claim about contract ABI shape, view-method return values (owner(), getOwners(), getThreshold(), totalSupply(), implementation(), paused(), MIN_DELAY(), …), and Safe membership. Do NOT invent ABIs or return values from training data. Note on noisy address_book: the pinned address_book is sourced from prior assessments. It may include token deployments, oracle feeds, peripheral contracts, or mis-classified entries. Skip surfacer URLs that don't fit your slice — fetch only those whose role hints suggest control / pause / upgrade authority. ### Protocol metadata refresh (populate `protocol_metadata` in the output) DeFiLlama's pinned inputs may be stale or wrong. As a side-effect of this assessment, populate `protocol_metadata` with anything you verify. Leave fields null / empty arrays if you did not verify them — do NOT echo pinned inputs through; null means "not re-verified this run". - `github`: array of canonical source-code repo URLs. - `docs_url`: canonical developer / protocol documentation site. - `audits`: array of `{ firm, url, date }` (date as YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD). - `governance_forum`: primary discussion forum URL (Discourse, Commonwealth, etc.). - `voting_token`: `{ chain, address, symbol }` or null. Omit if not token-governed. - `bug_bounty_url`: public bug bounty page (Immunefi, HackerOne, self-hosted). - `security_contact`: private-disclosure channel — security@ email or SECURITY.md URL. Distinct from public bug bounty. - `deployed_contracts_doc`: docs page that lists deployed addresses per chain. Don't enumerate; just link. - `admin_addresses`: array of `{ chain, address, role, actor_class }` for multisig / timelock / owner / proxy-admin addresses. `actor_class` ∈ `"eoa" | "multisig" | "timelock" | "governance" | "unknown"`. These are the anchors for future runs' address_book. - `upgradeability`: `"immutable" | "upgradeable" | "mixed" | "unknown"`. "mixed" = some core contracts immutable, others behind proxies. - `about`: 2–4 sentence plain-English description. Name the user action (stake, borrow, swap, bridge, mint, redeem), the asset / market, and the distinctive mechanism (liquid staking receipt, isolated lending pools, constant-product AMM, intents auction, etc.). Do not restate category / chains / TVL. Every non-null field in `protocol_metadata` must be backed by ≥1 entry in evidence[]. --- ### Slice: VERIFIABILITY Evaluate whether an outsider can independently confirm what the deployed code does. MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every item below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]): - V1. For each address you assess: is the bytecode verified on the chain's block explorer? Record the "Contract Source Code Verified" indicator. https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/abi?chainId=<id>&address=0x... returns this as a top-level "verified" boolean plus "abiSource" ("etherscan" / "sourcify") and an inline ABI — useful when the explorer page is rate-limited. If the contract is a proxy, verify BOTH the proxy contract AND the current implementation contract. The same /api/contract/abi response auto-resolves proxies and includes a "proxy.implementation" address when present, so one call covers V1 + V6 in one shot. An explorer "Similar Match" on a well-known proxy pattern (Aragon AppProxyUpgradeable, ERC1967Proxy, OssifiableProxy, OZ TransparentUpgradeableProxy) is expected for that pattern and does NOT count as a verification gap on its own — what matters is that the implementation is independently verified. - V2. Source-to-repo correspondence: for each verified contract, attempt to find a matching commit in the linked GitHub repos. Record evidence[].commit on a match. Independent compile/bytecode-match is NOT required for green — a recognized public repo whose structure and file contents correspond to the explorer-visible source is sufficient. If you did not pin a commit SHA or run a bytecode diff, record that plainly in unknowns[] and proceed; it is a scope limit, not a downgrade signal. - V3. Audit coverage: for each URL in protocol.audit_links, open it and record: auditor name, audit date, the specific contracts / commit in scope. Flag audits that predate the current deployment by >6 months without a follow-up review. - V4. Auditor recognition: the following firms are broadly recognized in Solidity: Trail of Bits, Zellic, Spearbit, OpenZeppelin, ConsenSys Diligence, Certora (formal verification), Quantstamp, Halborn, Peckshield, Sigma Prime, ChainSecurity, Ackee Blockchain, MixBytes, Statemind. Unknown firms are orange-at-best for any green-grade claim. Name the firm explicitly in evidence[]. - V5. Post-audit drift: compare the most recent in-scope audit(s) against the currently-deployed source, weighted by what each contract does and by what the changes actually contain. SCOPE — drift only downgrades the grade when ALL of the following hold: (i) the drifting contract is fund-custody / settlement / accounting-critical (NOT a peripheral router, lens, quoter, or pure-view contract that holds no balances); (ii) the changes are material — new functions, modified access control, modified accounting, modified fund flow — and not refactors / struct relocations / import reorgs / build or CI fixes / formatting; (iii) no later audit, fix-audit, or differential audit from a recognized firm covers the changed files (audits often pin a pre-fix commit while a follow-up reviews the delta — match by file scope, not by commit-hash equality). When you cite drift as a downgrade reason, name the specific behavior change (function added, role granted, accounting formula altered) — "N commits ahead" or "+X/-Y LOC" alone is not evidence of material drift. If you have not sampled the diff content (e.g. via the GitHub compare view or the top commits in the window), record drift as an unknowns[] entry rather than auto-downgrading; commit-count and LOC are starting signals, not findings. - V6. Implementation vs proxy: a verified proxy with an unverified implementation is effectively unverified. State whether the implementation is verified separately. EVIDENCE DISCIPLINE (read before writing findings[]): - Do not assert a specific deploy-commit SHA, bytecode equivalence, or "identical to audited commit" unless you actually fetched the artifact that shows it (e.g., a deployed-addresses JSON you opened, an explorer page you read). Inferred or plausible matches belong in unknowns[], never in findings[] or evidence[]. - Evidence[] entries must correspond to pages/files you actually retrieved this run. A URL you did not open is not evidence. Then write the steel-man section per Hard Rule 11. Grade rules: - green = deployed bytecode verified on the explorer (proxy AND implementation if proxied; "Similar Match" on a standard proxy pattern is fine per V1), a public source repo exists whose contents correspond to the explorer-visible source, AND ≥1 audit from a recognized firm covering the currently-deployed contracts (≤6 months of drift OR drift was re-audited). A missing local compile-match is not a downgrade — record it in unknowns[] and still grade green if the other conditions hold. - orange = verified but with visible drift from the public repo, OR audit scope is stale relative to deployment, OR only minor / unknown-firm audits exist, OR only some of the main contracts are verified, OR proxy verified but implementation only partially verified. - red = unverified bytecode (or verified proxy with unverified implementation), OR no audit in protocol.audit_links, OR no public repo. - unknown = reserved for when the protocol's verifiability posture genuinely cannot be assessed (e.g., explorer and repo both inaccessible for this protocol). Do NOT use unknown merely because you, the analyst, could not run a particular check such as a bytecode diff — that goes in unknowns[] while the grade is still assigned from the evidence you do have. --- ### JSON output contract Return exactly one JSON object inside a single ```json fenced block. Shape: { "schema_version": 4, "slug": "<copy protocol.slug from the per-protocol context>", "slice": "verifiability", "snapshot_generated_at": "<copy snapshot.generated_at from the per-protocol context>", "prompt_version": 29, "analysis_date": "<copy analysis_date from the per-protocol context>", "model": "<exact model name, e.g. claude-opus-4-7 / gpt-5-thinking / gemini-3-pro>", "chat_url": null, "grading_basis": "on-chain | off-chain-only | mixed (optional; omit for on-chain)", "grade": "green | orange | red | unknown", "headline": "<one-line summary>", "short_headline": "<≤6 words, ≤80 chars; omit if you can't fit>", "rationale": { "findings": [{ "code": "E1", "text": "<concrete, source-cited finding>" }], "steelman": { "red": "<one sentence>", "orange": "<one sentence>", "green": "<one sentence>" }, "verdict": "Choosing <grade> because <reason ranking one steel-man above the others, citing specific evidence>." }, "evidence": [{ "url": "https://...", "shows": "<what this URL demonstrates>", "chain": "...", "address": "0x...", "commit": "<hex SHA>", "fetched_at": "2026-04-23T11:20:00Z" }], "unknowns": ["E3: <thing you looked for but couldn't determine>"], "protocol_metadata": { "github": ["https://github.com/org/repo"], "docs_url": "https://docs.protocol.xyz", "audits": [{ "firm": "Trail of Bits", "url": "https://...report.pdf", "date": "2025-09" }], "governance_forum": "https://forum.protocol.xyz", "voting_token": { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "symbol": "XYZ" }, "bug_bounty_url": "https://immunefi.com/bounty/protocol", "security_contact": "security@protocol.xyz", "deployed_contracts_doc": "https://docs.protocol.xyz/deployments", "admin_addresses": [{ "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "role": "DAO treasury multisig", "actor_class": "multisig" }], "upgradeability": "immutable | upgradeable | mixed | unknown", "about": "<2–4 sentences>" } } Rules recap: - grade="unknown" ⇒ steelman=null; unknowns[] ≥1; evidence[] may be empty. - grade!="unknown" ⇒ steelman={red,orange,green}; evidence[] ≥1; verdict starts with "Choosing ". - findings[].code matches the slice's checklist prefix verbatim (E1, C2-emergency, V4a, …); unknowns[] entries are checklist-coded ("E3: …"). - Wrap in a single ```json fence; nothing before or after. 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### Per-protocol context (ground truth for this run) - protocol.slug: nexus-mutual - protocol.name: Nexus Mutual - protocol.chains: Ethereum - protocol.category: Insurance - protocol.website: https://nexusmutual.io/ - protocol.github: NexusMutual - protocol.audit_links: https://nexusmutual.gitbook.io/docs/helpful-resources/audits-and-security - snapshot.generated_at: 2026-06-01T11:27:13.878Z - analysis_date: 2026-06-08 - prompt_version: 29 - address_book: [ { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e", "role": "NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900", "role": "TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e", "role": "Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e", "role": "Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656", "role": "KYC auth address returned by Registry" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32", "role": "Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D", "role": "Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9", "role": "DAO treasury Safe" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1", "role": "DAO teams 3/5 multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b", "role": "token" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884", "role": "pool" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926", "role": "multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f", "role": "proxy" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f", "role": "other" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139", "role": "other" } ] ### Pre-built read-API surfacer URLs (verbatim — fetchable as-is) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e (NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900 (TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e (Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e (Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656 (KYC auth address returned by Registry) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32 (Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D (Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9 (DAO treasury Safe) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1 (DAO teams 3/5 multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b (token) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884 (pool) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926 (multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f (proxy) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f (other) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139 (other) --- You are contributing a single-slice assessment to defipunkd, a git-native transparency registry for DeFi protocols. Your JSON output will be attached to a pull request and compared against ≥2 other independent runs. Disagreements are surfaced publicly — be conservative, cite everything, return grade="unknown" when a signal cannot be determined, and resist stopping at the first damning finding. ### Per-protocol context (do not infer; these are ground truth) A "Per-protocol context" block (provided alongside this prompt — either as a user message in API mode, or as a section appended below in copy-paste mode) lists the pinned inputs (protocol.slug, name, chains, category, website, github, audit_links, snapshot.generated_at, analysis_date, prompt_version, address_book) and a list of pre-built read-API surfacer URLs for each pinned address. Treat those values as authoritative for this run. The pre-built surfacer URLs are accepted by your fetch tool's allowlist because they appear verbatim in the per-protocol context. Each surfacer page pre-executes the contract's zero-arg view methods and renders any address-typed return values as /address/{chainId}/0x… links inline — those rendered links are also fetchable post-fetch. /api/contract/read and /api/safe/owners JSON responses include a top-level `crawl.surfacers` array of /address/{chainId}/0x… URLs for every address-typed value in the result, so you can crawl directly from API responses. For addresses surfaced from non-defipunkd sources (block-explorer pages, GitHub, audit PDFs), the allowlist will reject your generated surfacer URL — record the address in protocol_metadata.admin_addresses and add a checklist-coded entry to unknowns[]; the next run will inherit it as a fetchable surfacer. ### Step 0 — Capability probe (do this before producing JSON) Identify what fetch tool your environment exposes — `web_fetch`, `browser`, `url_context`, `google_search` (with underscore, colon, or space), Bing grounding, Perplexity, `web.run`, or anything similar. Search-grounding tools ARE valid fetch paths and you should use them; they are not forbidden. The distinction that matters is what the tool returned, not its name: a grounded response with the underlying page body is sufficient evidence; a bare 1–3-line preview snippet is not. Probe: attempt one fetch of `protocol.website` and one fetch of a pre-built surfacer URL above (or the protocol's primary block-explorer page if no surfacer is pinned). Record the tool you used, the URL, and what came back (response body, HTTP status, allowlist rejection text, or "tool not present: <name>"). If either probe succeeded, proceed. If both direct probes failed, **DO NOT STOP** — try search. Issue at least two broad search queries (protocol name + "Etherscan" / "official docs" / "GitHub" / "audit"; `site:` operators against etherscan.io / github.com / the docs domain). If a search query returns the underlying page body, that page URL is fetched evidence and goes in evidence[]. Set `grading_basis: "off-chain-only"` and continue with whatever you can extract. Empty `evidence[]` + `grade="unknown"` is only valid if BOTH direct probes AND ≥2 search queries returned nothing usable; in that case, log the attempted queries and observed-zero outcomes in unknowns[]. A submission claiming "blocked" without those receipts is treated as a non-submission (zero quorum weight). Search engines do not index raw JSON API endpoints — zero results for `defipunkd.com/api/contract/read` URLs is expected and is itself a recordable failure mode, not a system restriction. ### Anti-fabrication (the most important rule on this page) Memory is not evidence. Treat your training data, prior conversations, and general knowledge as suggestions for what to look up — never as citations. Every URL in evidence[] must have been fetched in this run via any tool exposed in your environment, OR pasted into this conversation by the user. Constructing a URL is fine, but every variable part (address, commit SHA, repo path, contract name, method, args, block number) must come from a fetched/pasted source in this run, and the URL must then have been successfully fetched before it appears in evidence[]. URLs constructed from remembered addresses, repo paths, contract names, or guessed API methods are fabrication. Before emitting JSON, run an evidence ledger check on every evidence[] entry: 1. The exact URL appears in your fetch transcript or in a user-pasted source body. 2. The fetched/pasted body contains the fact you're citing in evidence[].shows. 3. Every rationale.findings / protocol_metadata claim that depends on this evidence follows directly from that body, without recourse to memory. 4. Derived (rather than verbatim) claims are explicitly labelled as derived in evidence[].shows. 5. `fetched_at` is set ONLY when you actually fetched the URL in this run; if no timestamp is available, omit the field — never invent one. If any check fails, remove the evidence entry and demote dependent claims to unknowns[]. Set grade="unknown" if demotion empties the grading basis. Do not ask the user to paste anything; do not withhold JSON; do not improvise from memory. A plausible-sounding answer backed by unsupported evidence is WORSE than grade="unknown" — it pollutes the quorum. If the assessment requires leaning on remembered public facts ("Lido is governed by LDO token-weighted voting"), historical reports, common knowledge, or likely-architecture reasoning ("UUPS proxies typically have an admin role"), return grade="unknown" with specific unknowns[] entries. Optimize for reproducibility, not completeness — if a reviewer can't re-verify each claim from the evidence URLs alone, the claim does not belong in the JSON. Empty unknowns[] on a non-trivial protocol is a red flag, not a quality signal. When the address_book is null/empty, you do not yet know any deployed address. Discover candidates from fetched website / GitHub / audit / explorer-search pages — addresses you "remember" from training data are not eligible, even for famous tokens (USDC, WBTC, stETH, UNI). If no address can be discovered after a good-faith attempt, return grade="unknown" with checklist-coded unknowns[] entries; do not invent addresses to fill the gap. ### Hard rules 1. Source classes that count as evidence: a) Public block explorers (etherscan.io, basescan.org, arbiscan.io, optimistic.etherscan.io, polygonscan.com, bscscan.com, snowtrace.io, scrollscan.com, lineascan.build, blastscan.io, era.zksync.network) for pinned addresses or addresses you discover transitively from them. b) The linked GitHub repos, at a specific commit SHA recorded in evidence[].commit. c) The audit PDFs / reports linked above. d) DeFiLlama's pinned fields (for category / chain lists only — not for risk assessment). e) DeFiPunkd's read API at https://defipunkd.com/api/{contract,safe}/... — see "On-chain reading" below. 2. If a signal cannot be determined after checking these, set grade="unknown" with ≥1 entry in unknowns[] naming what you looked for. 3. Every factual claim in rationale must map to ≥1 evidence[] entry. 4. Output exactly one JSON object matching the contract at the end, wrapped in a single ```json fenced code block. This rule applies to your FINAL assistant message only — issue tool calls freely during the run; tool-call reasoning lives in your model's tool-use channel and is not subject to this rule. Nothing before or after the fence — no prose, no follow-up questions, no requests for the user to paste anything. If evidence is incomplete, the correct response is still JSON, with claims demoted to unknowns[] and grade="unknown". ### Format rules (validation will reject submissions that violate these) 5. evidence[].url must be a bare `https://...` string — NEVER markdown link syntax. WRONG: `"url": "[Etherscan](https://etherscan.io/...)"`. RIGHT: `"url": "https://etherscan.io/..."`. 6. evidence[].commit, when present, must match `^[0-9a-f]{7,40}$` (lowercase hex, 7–40 chars). NEVER branch names or tags. Omit if you cannot pin a SHA. 7. evidence[].fetched_at, when present, must be ISO-8601 UTC (e.g. `2026-04-23T11:20:00Z`). Set whenever you actually fetched in this run. 8. evidence[].address, when present, must be `^0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$` (mixed case OK; checksum not validated). 9. Checklist codes (used in findings[].code and as unknowns[] prefixes) match `^[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,16}$` — start with an uppercase letter, then digits / letters / hyphens. Examples: `E1`, `A3b`, `C2-emergency`, `V4-auditor`. No parens, spaces, dots, slashes, underscores. Use slice-defined codes verbatim. unknowns[] entries must be prefixed with the relevant code + colon (e.g. `"A3b: frontend fetch failed"`). 10. chat_url: ALWAYS null. Default share links (claude.ai/chat, chatgpt.com, gemini.google.com) require viewer login and are not publicly readable. The user enables "Share publicly" after you respond and pastes the public URL into the JSON before opening the PR. ### Thoroughness rules 11. Each per-slice body contains a "MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST". Every item must EITHER produce an evidence[] entry OR a specific unknowns[] entry naming it by code. Silent skips are rejected as incomplete. 12. Before assigning a grade other than "unknown", rationale.steelman must contain a one-sentence strongest argument for each of red / orange / green, and rationale.verdict must state which fits the evidence and why. If the steel-man for the chosen grade is weaker than for an adjacent grade, you have probably picked the wrong grade. When grade="unknown", set steelman to null and use verdict to summarize what blocked the assessment. 13. Distinguish actor classes (EOA, 2-of-3 multisig, 4-of-7+ multisig with identified signers, emergency-scoped time-capped multisig, on-chain governance vote with timelock) and function classes (claim-of-finalized vs new-request-placement, deposit vs borrow, mint vs redeem) — say which actor holds which power, on what time bound. "An admin can pause" is insufficient. 14. For on-chain slices (control, ability-to-exit, autonomy, verifiability), evidence[] must include ≥1 on-chain URL: a block-explorer URL OR a DeFiPunkd /api/{contract/read,safe/owners} URL (preferred — content-addressed when block-pinned). /api/contract/abi alone is metadata, not on-chain evidence. Source repos tell you what code SHOULD do; deployed contracts tell you what it ACTUALLY does. The "open-access" slice is exempt when claims are entirely about frontend / off-chain operator behavior. CARVE-OUT: `grading_basis="off-chain-only"` is exempt from this rule but is downweighted by the quorum bot regardless of grade. 15. Prompt-meta-check: if your verdict quotes prompt language as evidence ("the protocol meets the 'documented fallback' condition"), re-do the verdict — the prompt describes the rubric, not the protocol. Evidence cites what THIS protocol does, not what the rubric says protocols of type X do. 16. `grading_basis` is one of `"on-chain"` (default; omit field), `"off-chain-only"`, or `"mixed"`. Describes what was READ this run, not the verdict — `grade="unknown"` is allowed under any basis. Set `"off-chain-only"` ONLY when BOTH (a) ≥1 successful fetch of a docs / forum / audit / GitHub URL appears in evidence[], AND (b) ≥1 failed on-chain fetch attempt for THIS run is recorded in unknowns[] with a `-offchain` suffix. Empty `evidence[]` with `"off-chain-only"` is a category error and is rejected by the validator. Set `"mixed"` when some checklist codes were on-chain and others fell back. ABI-only finds (you read the ABI but couldn't read live state) are valid as `grade="unknown"` with the ABI cited; do not infer a grade from ABI shape alone. ### On-chain reading via the DeFiPunkd API Don't encode calldata, decode return data, or guess at ABIs by hand. Three deterministic GET endpoints return JSON with blockNumber, blockHash, raw calldata, and rawReturnData — content-addressed when block-pinned (`&block=<n>`): ABI (auto-resolves proxies): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/abi?chainId=<id>&address=0x... View call (any view method on the merged ABI; flat scalar args): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=getOwners https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=balanceOf&args=0x... Safe (threshold + owners + version in one call): https://defipunkd.com/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x... Use the BARE method name in `&method=` (e.g. `&method=totalSupply`, NOT `&method=totalSupply()`). Browser tools normalize `(` to `%28` and reject the normalized URL; bare names dodge that. Pass arguments via `&args=` (comma-separated, declaration order). Append `&block=<n>` for content-addressed evidence. Supported chainIds: 1 (ethereum), 10 (optimism), 56 (bsc), 130 (unichain), 137 (polygon), 324 (zksync), 8453 (base), 42161 (arbitrum), 43114 (avalanche), 59144 (linea), 81457 (blast), 534352 (scroll), 11155111 (sepolia). Use this API for any factual claim about contract ABI shape, view-method return values (owner(), getOwners(), getThreshold(), totalSupply(), implementation(), paused(), MIN_DELAY(), …), and Safe membership. Do NOT invent ABIs or return values from training data. Note on noisy address_book: the pinned address_book is sourced from prior assessments. It may include token deployments, oracle feeds, peripheral contracts, or mis-classified entries. Skip surfacer URLs that don't fit your slice — fetch only those whose role hints suggest control / pause / upgrade authority. ### Protocol metadata refresh (populate `protocol_metadata` in the output) DeFiLlama's pinned inputs may be stale or wrong. As a side-effect of this assessment, populate `protocol_metadata` with anything you verify. Leave fields null / empty arrays if you did not verify them — do NOT echo pinned inputs through; null means "not re-verified this run". - `github`: array of canonical source-code repo URLs. - `docs_url`: canonical developer / protocol documentation site. - `audits`: array of `{ firm, url, date }` (date as YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD). - `governance_forum`: primary discussion forum URL (Discourse, Commonwealth, etc.). - `voting_token`: `{ chain, address, symbol }` or null. Omit if not token-governed. - `bug_bounty_url`: public bug bounty page (Immunefi, HackerOne, self-hosted). - `security_contact`: private-disclosure channel — security@ email or SECURITY.md URL. Distinct from public bug bounty. - `deployed_contracts_doc`: docs page that lists deployed addresses per chain. Don't enumerate; just link. - `admin_addresses`: array of `{ chain, address, role, actor_class }` for multisig / timelock / owner / proxy-admin addresses. `actor_class` ∈ `"eoa" | "multisig" | "timelock" | "governance" | "unknown"`. These are the anchors for future runs' address_book. - `upgradeability`: `"immutable" | "upgradeable" | "mixed" | "unknown"`. "mixed" = some core contracts immutable, others behind proxies. - `about`: 2–4 sentence plain-English description. Name the user action (stake, borrow, swap, bridge, mint, redeem), the asset / market, and the distinctive mechanism (liquid staking receipt, isolated lending pools, constant-product AMM, intents auction, etc.). Do not restate category / chains / TVL. Every non-null field in `protocol_metadata` must be backed by ≥1 entry in evidence[]. --- ### Slice: CONTROL Evaluate who can change the protocol's rules, how fast, and how broadly. (Step 0 capability probe and the off-chain-only fallback live in the preamble — those rules apply here.) ### MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every item below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]) - **C1.** For each address you assess: who is the contract owner / admin / pendingAdmin / governor — read these via the block explorer's "Read Contract" tab OR `https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=owner` (BARE method names: `&method=owner`, `&method=admin`, `&method=pendingOwner`, `&method=governor`). For Safes use `/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x...`. When a protocol has multiple major versions deployed (v2/v3/v4), perform C1 reads on the NEWEST deployment separately — newer deployments often have weaker control surfaces than the legacy core. - **C2.** Upgrade mechanism: transparent proxy / UUPS / Beacon / Diamond / immutable. Identify the proxy admin address. Check upgradeability of GOVERNANCE contracts too — a Governor / Aragon Voting / OZ Governor is often itself a proxy whose admin is the Timelock. Asymmetry: when fund-holding cores are immutable AND governance has no admin path that reaches them, an upgradable Governor/Timelock is T3-only and must NOT drag the verdict below green on that basis alone (see grade rules and the "immutable cores" caveat). Only call upgradability "mixed" if you can name a concrete function on the upgradable surface that reaches T1 or T2 on user funds. - **C3.** EXECUTION PATH (enumerate every stage, in order, with delays in seconds). The operative path is usually a chain (voting → scheduler → timelock → executor; or governor → queue → execute; or Aragon Voting → DualGovernance → EmergencyProtectedTimelock → AdminExecutor). For each stage, record (a) the contract address, (b) the delay constant name + value in seconds, (c) the URL you read it from (block-explorer Read Contract OR `/api/contract/read?...&method=MIN_DELAY&block=<n>`). Do NOT stop at the first timelock-shaped contract — if its admin is itself called by another contract, keep walking. The grading delay is the SUM OF DELAYS ON THE UNCONTESTED FAST PATH (shortest time a proposal with no opposition can go from submission to executable). Dynamic / contested extensions (veto signaling, rage quit, escrow delay) are modifiers, not the basis — note them separately. - **C4.** Enumerate EVERY multisig with reachable control — main proxy admin, emergency activation, emergency execution, reseal / pause, gate-seal committees, tiebreaker, per-module admins. For each Safe, fetch threshold + owners + version via `/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x...` (response includes raw eth_call data, so the URL is citable evidence). Enumerate ops/council/incentives multisigs even when off the upgrade path — record their scope so a reader can see they are NOT on the upgrade path. For each: (a) address, (b) threshold / total signers, (c) signer identities classified as insider (team, paid auditors under ongoing engagement, mandated service providers) vs non-insider (independent community members, unaffiliated researchers), (d) the specific power held (upgrade, pause, parameter, etc.). - **C5.** On-chain governance: Governor / GovernorBravo / OZ Governor / Aragon Voting with token-weighted voting? Record proposal threshold, voting period, quorum, and the timelock delay between queue and execute. Every numeric constant must come from a Read Contract call you can link to, or be in unknowns[] with the C-code. If votingDelay / votingPeriod are denominated in BLOCKS, convert to seconds at the chain's CURRENT block time (Ethereum mainnet ≈ 12s post-Merge, not the 15s in older Compound/Bravo deployments) — cite both block count and converted seconds. - **C6.** EMERGENCY POWERS: separate emergency-pause / guardian role with a different time cap or different actor than the main upgrade authority? Record it explicitly. - **C7.** POWER TIER (blast radius). For each privileged path in C3–C6, classify the WORST thing that path can do, choosing the highest applicable tier. Cite the specific function name and any on-chain bound — tier claims without a named function are unsupported. - **T1 — FUND-CRITICAL**: replace implementation of contracts holding user funds; change AMM math / accounting / collateral logic; mint unbacked debt or shares; pause withdrawals; drain user-fund treasury; change oracle to attacker-controlled source; replace upgrade admin with EOA. - **T2 — ECONOMICALLY MATERIAL**: change fee parameters within bounded ranges; redirect protocol fees; add/remove markets / collateral types; bounded inflation or token mint within hard-capped schedule; spend protocol-owned (non-user) treasury. - **T3 — GOVERNANCE-INTERNAL**: change voting rules, quorum, voting period, proposal threshold; upgrade the Governor itself; rotate Timelock admin; mint governance tokens within a capped annual schedule. - **T4 — OPERATIONAL**: incentives distribution, grants, ENS / frontend canonicalization, deployment coordination, periphery router deprecation. The grade is set by the HIGHEST tier reachable on the uncontested fast path, not the median. State the tier and the binding function in the verdict. ### Read Contract discipline (applies to C3, C4, C5) Every numeric constant cited (timelock delays, voting periods, multisig thresholds, quorum percentages) must come from EITHER (a) a block-explorer Read Contract URL, OR (b) a DeFiPunkd `/api/contract/read` or `/api/safe/owners` URL (preferred with `&block=<n>` for content-addressed evidence), OR (c) an unknowns[] entry with the C-code. Docs / blog posts are corroboration only — they cannot be the sole citation for a value that is also readable on-chain. ### Off-chain-only substitute hierarchy (when grading_basis="off-chain-only" — see preamble Rule 16) When on-chain reads were genuinely unreachable this run, eligible off-chain substitutes in priority order: 1. Linked audit PDFs (admin roles, multisig members, timelock delays usually enumerated). 2. Governance forum posts that quote constants from a successful on-chain proposal (cite post URL + linked execution-tx URL). 3. Official protocol docs pages with named addresses and roles (must be on a domain owned by the protocol). 4. GitHub README / SECURITY.md / governance/*.md at a pinned commit SHA. Forbidden substitutes: third-party blog posts, X / Twitter threads, search-result snippets, model memory. Required degradation: any C-code citing a numeric constant from docs/forum/audit prose ONLY must also carry an `unknowns[]` entry with `-offchain` suffix noting "value not re-read on-chain in this run; corroboration only". ### Grade rules (apply the timelock bar conditional on the highest C7 tier reachable on the fast path) Security Council standard (used below): a multisig qualifies as "Security Council" only if ALL of: ≥7 signers, ≥51% threshold, ≥50% non-insider signers, every signer publicly announced. Failing any criterion = NOT a Security Council, regardless of signer reputation. - **green**: highest reachable tier is T3 or T4 regardless of timelock; OR T2 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay ≥7 days; OR T1 reachable only via immutable contracts (T1 is unreachable); OR T1 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay ≥7 days combined with a Security Council multisig; OR T1 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay ≥7 days through active on-chain governance with broad token distribution. - **orange**: T2 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay >0 but <7 days; OR T1 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay >0 but <7 days; OR a multisig failing one or more Security Council criteria sits on a T1/T2 path; OR unclear upgrade authority on a T1/T2 path; OR governance with very short timelock or low quorum on a T1/T2 path. - **red**: T1 reachable with no timelock by a single EOA or 2-of-3 multisig; OR a T1 upgrade admin that is not a smart contract you can audit. - **unknown**: completed the checklist but still cannot determine the upgrade authority OR cannot classify the highest tier reachable on the main contracts. Tiering caveats: - "Bounded" must be enforced ON-CHAIN to count as T2. A function that sets fees with no upper-bound check is T1 — cite the bound check. - Recurring T2 economic extraction (e.g. fee redirect with no rate limit) approaches T1 over time. A single proposal that can permanently redirect all future revenue is T1. - T3 assumes the governance contract cannot itself authorize a T1/T2 action without going through the same timelock. If governance can self-upgrade to bypass the timelock, T3 collapses into T1. - Do not downgrade tier by hand-waving ("realistically governance would never…"). Tier on what the contract permits, not what feels likely. Notes: - **Dynamic / dual-governance timelocks** (Lido, Compound escrow veto): the rubric grades on the uncontested path because that is the path most upgrades take. A dynamic extension that fires only under stake-weighted opposition is a real protection — name it in the green steel-man, but it does not lift an orange fast path into green; state the tension in the verdict. - **Immutable cores with upgradable governance** (Uniswap-style): if fund-holding contracts are immutable and have no admin-reachable function moving / freezing / re-routing user funds, the highest reachable tier on the upgrade path is T3 — green regardless of timelock. Don't grade this orange just because the Governor is a proxy — that's a C2 fact, not a downgrade. Downgrade only applies if you can cite a concrete function on the upgradable surface that reaches T1 or T2 (privileged hook, upgradable factory controlling fund-routing, fee-switch redirecting protocol revenue without bound). - **The 7-day bar** reflects the exit-window standard — users need notice after a queued upgrade to withdraw if they disagree. The ability-to-exit slice grades the exit side; this slice grades the delay side; both must hold for users to actually benefit from the delay. --- ### JSON output contract Return exactly one JSON object inside a single ```json fenced block. Shape: { "schema_version": 4, "slug": "<copy protocol.slug from the per-protocol context>", "slice": "control", "snapshot_generated_at": "<copy snapshot.generated_at from the per-protocol context>", "prompt_version": 29, "analysis_date": "<copy analysis_date from the per-protocol context>", "model": "<exact model name, e.g. claude-opus-4-7 / gpt-5-thinking / gemini-3-pro>", "chat_url": null, "grading_basis": "on-chain | off-chain-only | mixed (optional; omit for on-chain)", "grade": "green | orange | red | unknown", "headline": "<one-line summary>", "short_headline": "<≤6 words, ≤80 chars; omit if you can't fit>", "rationale": { "findings": [{ "code": "E1", "text": "<concrete, source-cited finding>" }], "steelman": { "red": "<one sentence>", "orange": "<one sentence>", "green": "<one sentence>" }, "verdict": "Choosing <grade> because <reason ranking one steel-man above the others, citing specific evidence>." }, "evidence": [{ "url": "https://...", "shows": "<what this URL demonstrates>", "chain": "...", "address": "0x...", "commit": "<hex SHA>", "fetched_at": "2026-04-23T11:20:00Z" }], "unknowns": ["E3: <thing you looked for but couldn't determine>"], "protocol_metadata": { "github": ["https://github.com/org/repo"], "docs_url": "https://docs.protocol.xyz", "audits": [{ "firm": "Trail of Bits", "url": "https://...report.pdf", "date": "2025-09" }], "governance_forum": "https://forum.protocol.xyz", "voting_token": { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "symbol": "XYZ" }, "bug_bounty_url": "https://immunefi.com/bounty/protocol", "security_contact": "security@protocol.xyz", "deployed_contracts_doc": "https://docs.protocol.xyz/deployments", "admin_addresses": [{ "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "role": "DAO treasury multisig", "actor_class": "multisig" }], "upgradeability": "immutable | upgradeable | mixed | unknown", "about": "<2–4 sentences>" } } Rules recap: - grade="unknown" ⇒ steelman=null; unknowns[] ≥1; evidence[] may be empty. - grade!="unknown" ⇒ steelman={red,orange,green}; evidence[] ≥1; verdict starts with "Choosing ". - findings[].code matches the slice's checklist prefix verbatim (E1, C2-emergency, V4a, …); unknowns[] entries are checklist-coded ("E3: …"). - Wrap in a single ```json fence; nothing before or after. URLs are bare strings, never markdown links. - Ability to exit
✓ 3/3 models agree
AI-only
weak orange — weak consensus margin Submit run ↗
### Per-protocol context (ground truth for this run) - protocol.slug: nexus-mutual - protocol.name: Nexus Mutual - protocol.chains: Ethereum - protocol.category: Insurance - protocol.website: https://nexusmutual.io/ - protocol.github: NexusMutual - protocol.audit_links: https://nexusmutual.gitbook.io/docs/helpful-resources/audits-and-security - snapshot.generated_at: 2026-06-01T11:27:13.878Z - analysis_date: 2026-06-08 - prompt_version: 29 - address_book: [ { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e", "role": "NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900", "role": "TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e", "role": "Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e", "role": "Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656", "role": "KYC auth address returned by Registry" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32", "role": "Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D", "role": "Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9", "role": "DAO treasury Safe" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1", "role": "DAO teams 3/5 multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b", "role": "token" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884", "role": "pool" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926", "role": "multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f", "role": "proxy" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f", "role": "other" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139", "role": "other" } ] ### Pre-built read-API surfacer URLs (verbatim — fetchable as-is) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e (NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900 (TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e (Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e (Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656 (KYC auth address returned by Registry) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32 (Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D (Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9 (DAO treasury Safe) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1 (DAO teams 3/5 multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b (token) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884 (pool) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926 (multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f (proxy) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f (other) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139 (other) --- You are contributing a single-slice assessment to defipunkd, a git-native transparency registry for DeFi protocols. Your JSON output will be attached to a pull request and compared against ≥2 other independent runs. Disagreements are surfaced publicly — be conservative, cite everything, return grade="unknown" when a signal cannot be determined, and resist stopping at the first damning finding. ### Per-protocol context (do not infer; these are ground truth) A "Per-protocol context" block (provided alongside this prompt — either as a user message in API mode, or as a section appended below in copy-paste mode) lists the pinned inputs (protocol.slug, name, chains, category, website, github, audit_links, snapshot.generated_at, analysis_date, prompt_version, address_book) and a list of pre-built read-API surfacer URLs for each pinned address. Treat those values as authoritative for this run. The pre-built surfacer URLs are accepted by your fetch tool's allowlist because they appear verbatim in the per-protocol context. Each surfacer page pre-executes the contract's zero-arg view methods and renders any address-typed return values as /address/{chainId}/0x… links inline — those rendered links are also fetchable post-fetch. /api/contract/read and /api/safe/owners JSON responses include a top-level `crawl.surfacers` array of /address/{chainId}/0x… URLs for every address-typed value in the result, so you can crawl directly from API responses. For addresses surfaced from non-defipunkd sources (block-explorer pages, GitHub, audit PDFs), the allowlist will reject your generated surfacer URL — record the address in protocol_metadata.admin_addresses and add a checklist-coded entry to unknowns[]; the next run will inherit it as a fetchable surfacer. ### Step 0 — Capability probe (do this before producing JSON) Identify what fetch tool your environment exposes — `web_fetch`, `browser`, `url_context`, `google_search` (with underscore, colon, or space), Bing grounding, Perplexity, `web.run`, or anything similar. Search-grounding tools ARE valid fetch paths and you should use them; they are not forbidden. The distinction that matters is what the tool returned, not its name: a grounded response with the underlying page body is sufficient evidence; a bare 1–3-line preview snippet is not. Probe: attempt one fetch of `protocol.website` and one fetch of a pre-built surfacer URL above (or the protocol's primary block-explorer page if no surfacer is pinned). Record the tool you used, the URL, and what came back (response body, HTTP status, allowlist rejection text, or "tool not present: <name>"). If either probe succeeded, proceed. If both direct probes failed, **DO NOT STOP** — try search. Issue at least two broad search queries (protocol name + "Etherscan" / "official docs" / "GitHub" / "audit"; `site:` operators against etherscan.io / github.com / the docs domain). If a search query returns the underlying page body, that page URL is fetched evidence and goes in evidence[]. Set `grading_basis: "off-chain-only"` and continue with whatever you can extract. Empty `evidence[]` + `grade="unknown"` is only valid if BOTH direct probes AND ≥2 search queries returned nothing usable; in that case, log the attempted queries and observed-zero outcomes in unknowns[]. A submission claiming "blocked" without those receipts is treated as a non-submission (zero quorum weight). Search engines do not index raw JSON API endpoints — zero results for `defipunkd.com/api/contract/read` URLs is expected and is itself a recordable failure mode, not a system restriction. ### Anti-fabrication (the most important rule on this page) Memory is not evidence. Treat your training data, prior conversations, and general knowledge as suggestions for what to look up — never as citations. Every URL in evidence[] must have been fetched in this run via any tool exposed in your environment, OR pasted into this conversation by the user. Constructing a URL is fine, but every variable part (address, commit SHA, repo path, contract name, method, args, block number) must come from a fetched/pasted source in this run, and the URL must then have been successfully fetched before it appears in evidence[]. URLs constructed from remembered addresses, repo paths, contract names, or guessed API methods are fabrication. Before emitting JSON, run an evidence ledger check on every evidence[] entry: 1. The exact URL appears in your fetch transcript or in a user-pasted source body. 2. The fetched/pasted body contains the fact you're citing in evidence[].shows. 3. Every rationale.findings / protocol_metadata claim that depends on this evidence follows directly from that body, without recourse to memory. 4. Derived (rather than verbatim) claims are explicitly labelled as derived in evidence[].shows. 5. `fetched_at` is set ONLY when you actually fetched the URL in this run; if no timestamp is available, omit the field — never invent one. If any check fails, remove the evidence entry and demote dependent claims to unknowns[]. Set grade="unknown" if demotion empties the grading basis. Do not ask the user to paste anything; do not withhold JSON; do not improvise from memory. A plausible-sounding answer backed by unsupported evidence is WORSE than grade="unknown" — it pollutes the quorum. If the assessment requires leaning on remembered public facts ("Lido is governed by LDO token-weighted voting"), historical reports, common knowledge, or likely-architecture reasoning ("UUPS proxies typically have an admin role"), return grade="unknown" with specific unknowns[] entries. Optimize for reproducibility, not completeness — if a reviewer can't re-verify each claim from the evidence URLs alone, the claim does not belong in the JSON. Empty unknowns[] on a non-trivial protocol is a red flag, not a quality signal. When the address_book is null/empty, you do not yet know any deployed address. Discover candidates from fetched website / GitHub / audit / explorer-search pages — addresses you "remember" from training data are not eligible, even for famous tokens (USDC, WBTC, stETH, UNI). If no address can be discovered after a good-faith attempt, return grade="unknown" with checklist-coded unknowns[] entries; do not invent addresses to fill the gap. ### Hard rules 1. Source classes that count as evidence: a) Public block explorers (etherscan.io, basescan.org, arbiscan.io, optimistic.etherscan.io, polygonscan.com, bscscan.com, snowtrace.io, scrollscan.com, lineascan.build, blastscan.io, era.zksync.network) for pinned addresses or addresses you discover transitively from them. b) The linked GitHub repos, at a specific commit SHA recorded in evidence[].commit. c) The audit PDFs / reports linked above. d) DeFiLlama's pinned fields (for category / chain lists only — not for risk assessment). e) DeFiPunkd's read API at https://defipunkd.com/api/{contract,safe}/... — see "On-chain reading" below. 2. If a signal cannot be determined after checking these, set grade="unknown" with ≥1 entry in unknowns[] naming what you looked for. 3. Every factual claim in rationale must map to ≥1 evidence[] entry. 4. Output exactly one JSON object matching the contract at the end, wrapped in a single ```json fenced code block. This rule applies to your FINAL assistant message only — issue tool calls freely during the run; tool-call reasoning lives in your model's tool-use channel and is not subject to this rule. Nothing before or after the fence — no prose, no follow-up questions, no requests for the user to paste anything. If evidence is incomplete, the correct response is still JSON, with claims demoted to unknowns[] and grade="unknown". ### Format rules (validation will reject submissions that violate these) 5. evidence[].url must be a bare `https://...` string — NEVER markdown link syntax. WRONG: `"url": "[Etherscan](https://etherscan.io/...)"`. RIGHT: `"url": "https://etherscan.io/..."`. 6. evidence[].commit, when present, must match `^[0-9a-f]{7,40}$` (lowercase hex, 7–40 chars). NEVER branch names or tags. Omit if you cannot pin a SHA. 7. evidence[].fetched_at, when present, must be ISO-8601 UTC (e.g. `2026-04-23T11:20:00Z`). Set whenever you actually fetched in this run. 8. evidence[].address, when present, must be `^0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$` (mixed case OK; checksum not validated). 9. Checklist codes (used in findings[].code and as unknowns[] prefixes) match `^[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,16}$` — start with an uppercase letter, then digits / letters / hyphens. Examples: `E1`, `A3b`, `C2-emergency`, `V4-auditor`. No parens, spaces, dots, slashes, underscores. Use slice-defined codes verbatim. unknowns[] entries must be prefixed with the relevant code + colon (e.g. `"A3b: frontend fetch failed"`). 10. chat_url: ALWAYS null. Default share links (claude.ai/chat, chatgpt.com, gemini.google.com) require viewer login and are not publicly readable. The user enables "Share publicly" after you respond and pastes the public URL into the JSON before opening the PR. ### Thoroughness rules 11. Each per-slice body contains a "MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST". Every item must EITHER produce an evidence[] entry OR a specific unknowns[] entry naming it by code. Silent skips are rejected as incomplete. 12. Before assigning a grade other than "unknown", rationale.steelman must contain a one-sentence strongest argument for each of red / orange / green, and rationale.verdict must state which fits the evidence and why. If the steel-man for the chosen grade is weaker than for an adjacent grade, you have probably picked the wrong grade. When grade="unknown", set steelman to null and use verdict to summarize what blocked the assessment. 13. Distinguish actor classes (EOA, 2-of-3 multisig, 4-of-7+ multisig with identified signers, emergency-scoped time-capped multisig, on-chain governance vote with timelock) and function classes (claim-of-finalized vs new-request-placement, deposit vs borrow, mint vs redeem) — say which actor holds which power, on what time bound. "An admin can pause" is insufficient. 14. For on-chain slices (control, ability-to-exit, autonomy, verifiability), evidence[] must include ≥1 on-chain URL: a block-explorer URL OR a DeFiPunkd /api/{contract/read,safe/owners} URL (preferred — content-addressed when block-pinned). /api/contract/abi alone is metadata, not on-chain evidence. Source repos tell you what code SHOULD do; deployed contracts tell you what it ACTUALLY does. The "open-access" slice is exempt when claims are entirely about frontend / off-chain operator behavior. CARVE-OUT: `grading_basis="off-chain-only"` is exempt from this rule but is downweighted by the quorum bot regardless of grade. 15. Prompt-meta-check: if your verdict quotes prompt language as evidence ("the protocol meets the 'documented fallback' condition"), re-do the verdict — the prompt describes the rubric, not the protocol. Evidence cites what THIS protocol does, not what the rubric says protocols of type X do. 16. `grading_basis` is one of `"on-chain"` (default; omit field), `"off-chain-only"`, or `"mixed"`. Describes what was READ this run, not the verdict — `grade="unknown"` is allowed under any basis. Set `"off-chain-only"` ONLY when BOTH (a) ≥1 successful fetch of a docs / forum / audit / GitHub URL appears in evidence[], AND (b) ≥1 failed on-chain fetch attempt for THIS run is recorded in unknowns[] with a `-offchain` suffix. Empty `evidence[]` with `"off-chain-only"` is a category error and is rejected by the validator. Set `"mixed"` when some checklist codes were on-chain and others fell back. ABI-only finds (you read the ABI but couldn't read live state) are valid as `grade="unknown"` with the ABI cited; do not infer a grade from ABI shape alone. ### On-chain reading via the DeFiPunkd API Don't encode calldata, decode return data, or guess at ABIs by hand. Three deterministic GET endpoints return JSON with blockNumber, blockHash, raw calldata, and rawReturnData — content-addressed when block-pinned (`&block=<n>`): ABI (auto-resolves proxies): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/abi?chainId=<id>&address=0x... View call (any view method on the merged ABI; flat scalar args): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=getOwners https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=balanceOf&args=0x... Safe (threshold + owners + version in one call): https://defipunkd.com/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x... Use the BARE method name in `&method=` (e.g. `&method=totalSupply`, NOT `&method=totalSupply()`). Browser tools normalize `(` to `%28` and reject the normalized URL; bare names dodge that. Pass arguments via `&args=` (comma-separated, declaration order). Append `&block=<n>` for content-addressed evidence. Supported chainIds: 1 (ethereum), 10 (optimism), 56 (bsc), 130 (unichain), 137 (polygon), 324 (zksync), 8453 (base), 42161 (arbitrum), 43114 (avalanche), 59144 (linea), 81457 (blast), 534352 (scroll), 11155111 (sepolia). Use this API for any factual claim about contract ABI shape, view-method return values (owner(), getOwners(), getThreshold(), totalSupply(), implementation(), paused(), MIN_DELAY(), …), and Safe membership. Do NOT invent ABIs or return values from training data. Note on noisy address_book: the pinned address_book is sourced from prior assessments. It may include token deployments, oracle feeds, peripheral contracts, or mis-classified entries. Skip surfacer URLs that don't fit your slice — fetch only those whose role hints suggest control / pause / upgrade authority. ### Protocol metadata refresh (populate `protocol_metadata` in the output) DeFiLlama's pinned inputs may be stale or wrong. As a side-effect of this assessment, populate `protocol_metadata` with anything you verify. Leave fields null / empty arrays if you did not verify them — do NOT echo pinned inputs through; null means "not re-verified this run". - `github`: array of canonical source-code repo URLs. - `docs_url`: canonical developer / protocol documentation site. - `audits`: array of `{ firm, url, date }` (date as YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD). - `governance_forum`: primary discussion forum URL (Discourse, Commonwealth, etc.). - `voting_token`: `{ chain, address, symbol }` or null. Omit if not token-governed. - `bug_bounty_url`: public bug bounty page (Immunefi, HackerOne, self-hosted). - `security_contact`: private-disclosure channel — security@ email or SECURITY.md URL. Distinct from public bug bounty. - `deployed_contracts_doc`: docs page that lists deployed addresses per chain. Don't enumerate; just link. - `admin_addresses`: array of `{ chain, address, role, actor_class }` for multisig / timelock / owner / proxy-admin addresses. `actor_class` ∈ `"eoa" | "multisig" | "timelock" | "governance" | "unknown"`. These are the anchors for future runs' address_book. - `upgradeability`: `"immutable" | "upgradeable" | "mixed" | "unknown"`. "mixed" = some core contracts immutable, others behind proxies. - `about`: 2–4 sentence plain-English description. Name the user action (stake, borrow, swap, bridge, mint, redeem), the asset / market, and the distinctive mechanism (liquid staking receipt, isolated lending pools, constant-product AMM, intents auction, etc.). Do not restate category / chains / TVL. Every non-null field in `protocol_metadata` must be backed by ≥1 entry in evidence[]. --- ### Slice: ABILITY-TO-EXIT Evaluate whether users can withdraw their funds on their own terms, even under adversarial admin conditions. MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every item below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]): - E1. Enumerate every user-facing exit function in the main contracts: withdraw, redeem, burn, requestWithdrawal, claim, exit, etc. List them by name. Do NOT treat the contract as a monolith. - E2. For EACH exit function in E1: identify its access modifiers and any pause guards (e.g. _checkResumed, whenNotPaused, onlyRole). Functions that gate REQUEST PLACEMENT often differ from functions that CLAIM FINALIZED FUNDS — check both separately. - E3. For each pause guard: identify the role holder (which address holds PAUSE_ROLE / GUARDIAN / etc.) and the maximum pause duration. Specifically check whether PAUSE_INFINITELY (or equivalent uncapped pause) is callable, and which actor can call it (single multisig vs governance vote). For role-holder reads use https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=hasRole&args=0x...,0x... or &method=getRoleAdmin&args=0x.... For "is currently paused" checks use &method=paused or &method=isPaused&args=<resume-code>. Use the BARE method name (no parens). Cite the URL with &block=<n> in evidence[]. - E4. EMERGENCY vs GOVERNANCE pause distinction: many protocols have a fast-acting emergency pause capped at N days and a slow governance pause that can be indefinite. Record both paths separately if present, with their time caps and actor classes. - E5. Queued redemption: documented maximum queue duration, daily withdrawal caps, whether the queue itself is pausable. - E6. Forced-exit / escape-hatch / permissionless emergency-exit mechanism for adversarial-admin scenarios. - E7. Frontend dependency: confirm exit functions are directly callable on-chain (e.g. via Etherscan write tab or a generic wallet) without the project's frontend. Then write the steel-man section per Hard Rule 11. Common red-vs-orange tension on this slice: indefinite pause exists (suggests red) BUT the realistic emergency path is time-capped AND claims of already-finalized exits are not pause-gated (suggests orange). Resolve this by stating who can do what for how long, not by stopping at the worst-case sentence. Grade rules: - green = permissionless exit; pause is either absent, narrowly scoped to clearly-described emergencies with auto-expiry, or capped at ≤7 days; no frontend dependency for exit; claims of already-finalized exits are not pause-gated under any path. - orange = pausable with broad scope OR indefinite pause is reachable only through governance vote (not unilateral admin action), OR queued redemption with documented max > 7 days, OR claims-of-finalized are exempt but new-request placement can be paused indefinitely by governance. - red = exit requires admin signature, OR ANY actor (including governance) can pause CLAIMS of finalized exits indefinitely, OR there is no on-chain exit function at all (purely custodial), OR pause is held by a single EOA / 2-of-3 multisig with no time cap. - unknown = checklist incomplete after checking the sources above. --- ### JSON output contract Return exactly one JSON object inside a single ```json fenced block. Shape: { "schema_version": 4, "slug": "<copy protocol.slug from the per-protocol context>", "slice": "ability-to-exit", "snapshot_generated_at": "<copy snapshot.generated_at from the per-protocol context>", "prompt_version": 29, "analysis_date": "<copy analysis_date from the per-protocol context>", "model": "<exact model name, e.g. claude-opus-4-7 / gpt-5-thinking / gemini-3-pro>", "chat_url": null, "grading_basis": "on-chain | off-chain-only | mixed (optional; omit for on-chain)", "grade": "green | orange | red | unknown", "headline": "<one-line summary>", "short_headline": "<≤6 words, ≤80 chars; omit if you can't fit>", "rationale": { "findings": [{ "code": "E1", "text": "<concrete, source-cited finding>" }], "steelman": { "red": "<one sentence>", "orange": "<one sentence>", "green": "<one sentence>" }, "verdict": "Choosing <grade> because <reason ranking one steel-man above the others, citing specific evidence>." }, "evidence": [{ "url": "https://...", "shows": "<what this URL demonstrates>", "chain": "...", "address": "0x...", "commit": "<hex SHA>", "fetched_at": "2026-04-23T11:20:00Z" }], "unknowns": ["E3: <thing you looked for but couldn't determine>"], "protocol_metadata": { "github": ["https://github.com/org/repo"], "docs_url": "https://docs.protocol.xyz", "audits": [{ "firm": "Trail of Bits", "url": "https://...report.pdf", "date": "2025-09" }], "governance_forum": "https://forum.protocol.xyz", "voting_token": { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "symbol": "XYZ" }, "bug_bounty_url": "https://immunefi.com/bounty/protocol", "security_contact": "security@protocol.xyz", "deployed_contracts_doc": "https://docs.protocol.xyz/deployments", "admin_addresses": [{ "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "role": "DAO treasury multisig", "actor_class": "multisig" }], "upgradeability": "immutable | upgradeable | mixed | unknown", "about": "<2–4 sentences>" } } Rules recap: - grade="unknown" ⇒ steelman=null; unknowns[] ≥1; evidence[] may be empty. - grade!="unknown" ⇒ steelman={red,orange,green}; evidence[] ≥1; verdict starts with "Choosing ". - findings[].code matches the slice's checklist prefix verbatim (E1, C2-emergency, V4a, …); unknowns[] entries are checklist-coded ("E3: …"). - Wrap in a single ```json fence; nothing before or after. URLs are bare strings, never markdown links. - Autonomy
✓ 3/3 models agree
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weak orange — weak consensus margin Submit run ↗
### Per-protocol context (ground truth for this run) - protocol.slug: nexus-mutual - protocol.name: Nexus Mutual - protocol.chains: Ethereum - protocol.category: Insurance - protocol.website: https://nexusmutual.io/ - protocol.github: NexusMutual - protocol.audit_links: https://nexusmutual.gitbook.io/docs/helpful-resources/audits-and-security - snapshot.generated_at: 2026-06-01T11:27:13.878Z - analysis_date: 2026-06-08 - prompt_version: 29 - address_book: [ { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e", "role": "NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900", "role": "TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e", "role": "Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e", "role": "Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656", "role": "KYC auth address returned by Registry" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32", "role": "Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D", "role": "Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9", "role": "DAO treasury Safe" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1", "role": "DAO teams 3/5 multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b", "role": "token" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884", "role": "pool" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926", "role": "multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f", "role": "proxy" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f", "role": "other" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139", "role": "other" } ] ### Pre-built read-API surfacer URLs (verbatim — fetchable as-is) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e (NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900 (TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e (Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e (Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656 (KYC auth address returned by Registry) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32 (Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D (Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9 (DAO treasury Safe) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1 (DAO teams 3/5 multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b (token) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884 (pool) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926 (multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f (proxy) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f (other) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139 (other) --- You are contributing a single-slice assessment to defipunkd, a git-native transparency registry for DeFi protocols. Your JSON output will be attached to a pull request and compared against ≥2 other independent runs. Disagreements are surfaced publicly — be conservative, cite everything, return grade="unknown" when a signal cannot be determined, and resist stopping at the first damning finding. ### Per-protocol context (do not infer; these are ground truth) A "Per-protocol context" block (provided alongside this prompt — either as a user message in API mode, or as a section appended below in copy-paste mode) lists the pinned inputs (protocol.slug, name, chains, category, website, github, audit_links, snapshot.generated_at, analysis_date, prompt_version, address_book) and a list of pre-built read-API surfacer URLs for each pinned address. Treat those values as authoritative for this run. The pre-built surfacer URLs are accepted by your fetch tool's allowlist because they appear verbatim in the per-protocol context. Each surfacer page pre-executes the contract's zero-arg view methods and renders any address-typed return values as /address/{chainId}/0x… links inline — those rendered links are also fetchable post-fetch. /api/contract/read and /api/safe/owners JSON responses include a top-level `crawl.surfacers` array of /address/{chainId}/0x… URLs for every address-typed value in the result, so you can crawl directly from API responses. For addresses surfaced from non-defipunkd sources (block-explorer pages, GitHub, audit PDFs), the allowlist will reject your generated surfacer URL — record the address in protocol_metadata.admin_addresses and add a checklist-coded entry to unknowns[]; the next run will inherit it as a fetchable surfacer. ### Step 0 — Capability probe (do this before producing JSON) Identify what fetch tool your environment exposes — `web_fetch`, `browser`, `url_context`, `google_search` (with underscore, colon, or space), Bing grounding, Perplexity, `web.run`, or anything similar. Search-grounding tools ARE valid fetch paths and you should use them; they are not forbidden. The distinction that matters is what the tool returned, not its name: a grounded response with the underlying page body is sufficient evidence; a bare 1–3-line preview snippet is not. Probe: attempt one fetch of `protocol.website` and one fetch of a pre-built surfacer URL above (or the protocol's primary block-explorer page if no surfacer is pinned). Record the tool you used, the URL, and what came back (response body, HTTP status, allowlist rejection text, or "tool not present: <name>"). If either probe succeeded, proceed. If both direct probes failed, **DO NOT STOP** — try search. Issue at least two broad search queries (protocol name + "Etherscan" / "official docs" / "GitHub" / "audit"; `site:` operators against etherscan.io / github.com / the docs domain). If a search query returns the underlying page body, that page URL is fetched evidence and goes in evidence[]. Set `grading_basis: "off-chain-only"` and continue with whatever you can extract. Empty `evidence[]` + `grade="unknown"` is only valid if BOTH direct probes AND ≥2 search queries returned nothing usable; in that case, log the attempted queries and observed-zero outcomes in unknowns[]. A submission claiming "blocked" without those receipts is treated as a non-submission (zero quorum weight). Search engines do not index raw JSON API endpoints — zero results for `defipunkd.com/api/contract/read` URLs is expected and is itself a recordable failure mode, not a system restriction. ### Anti-fabrication (the most important rule on this page) Memory is not evidence. Treat your training data, prior conversations, and general knowledge as suggestions for what to look up — never as citations. Every URL in evidence[] must have been fetched in this run via any tool exposed in your environment, OR pasted into this conversation by the user. Constructing a URL is fine, but every variable part (address, commit SHA, repo path, contract name, method, args, block number) must come from a fetched/pasted source in this run, and the URL must then have been successfully fetched before it appears in evidence[]. URLs constructed from remembered addresses, repo paths, contract names, or guessed API methods are fabrication. Before emitting JSON, run an evidence ledger check on every evidence[] entry: 1. The exact URL appears in your fetch transcript or in a user-pasted source body. 2. The fetched/pasted body contains the fact you're citing in evidence[].shows. 3. Every rationale.findings / protocol_metadata claim that depends on this evidence follows directly from that body, without recourse to memory. 4. Derived (rather than verbatim) claims are explicitly labelled as derived in evidence[].shows. 5. `fetched_at` is set ONLY when you actually fetched the URL in this run; if no timestamp is available, omit the field — never invent one. If any check fails, remove the evidence entry and demote dependent claims to unknowns[]. Set grade="unknown" if demotion empties the grading basis. Do not ask the user to paste anything; do not withhold JSON; do not improvise from memory. A plausible-sounding answer backed by unsupported evidence is WORSE than grade="unknown" — it pollutes the quorum. If the assessment requires leaning on remembered public facts ("Lido is governed by LDO token-weighted voting"), historical reports, common knowledge, or likely-architecture reasoning ("UUPS proxies typically have an admin role"), return grade="unknown" with specific unknowns[] entries. Optimize for reproducibility, not completeness — if a reviewer can't re-verify each claim from the evidence URLs alone, the claim does not belong in the JSON. Empty unknowns[] on a non-trivial protocol is a red flag, not a quality signal. When the address_book is null/empty, you do not yet know any deployed address. Discover candidates from fetched website / GitHub / audit / explorer-search pages — addresses you "remember" from training data are not eligible, even for famous tokens (USDC, WBTC, stETH, UNI). If no address can be discovered after a good-faith attempt, return grade="unknown" with checklist-coded unknowns[] entries; do not invent addresses to fill the gap. ### Hard rules 1. Source classes that count as evidence: a) Public block explorers (etherscan.io, basescan.org, arbiscan.io, optimistic.etherscan.io, polygonscan.com, bscscan.com, snowtrace.io, scrollscan.com, lineascan.build, blastscan.io, era.zksync.network) for pinned addresses or addresses you discover transitively from them. b) The linked GitHub repos, at a specific commit SHA recorded in evidence[].commit. c) The audit PDFs / reports linked above. d) DeFiLlama's pinned fields (for category / chain lists only — not for risk assessment). e) DeFiPunkd's read API at https://defipunkd.com/api/{contract,safe}/... — see "On-chain reading" below. 2. If a signal cannot be determined after checking these, set grade="unknown" with ≥1 entry in unknowns[] naming what you looked for. 3. Every factual claim in rationale must map to ≥1 evidence[] entry. 4. Output exactly one JSON object matching the contract at the end, wrapped in a single ```json fenced code block. This rule applies to your FINAL assistant message only — issue tool calls freely during the run; tool-call reasoning lives in your model's tool-use channel and is not subject to this rule. Nothing before or after the fence — no prose, no follow-up questions, no requests for the user to paste anything. If evidence is incomplete, the correct response is still JSON, with claims demoted to unknowns[] and grade="unknown". ### Format rules (validation will reject submissions that violate these) 5. evidence[].url must be a bare `https://...` string — NEVER markdown link syntax. WRONG: `"url": "[Etherscan](https://etherscan.io/...)"`. RIGHT: `"url": "https://etherscan.io/..."`. 6. evidence[].commit, when present, must match `^[0-9a-f]{7,40}$` (lowercase hex, 7–40 chars). NEVER branch names or tags. Omit if you cannot pin a SHA. 7. evidence[].fetched_at, when present, must be ISO-8601 UTC (e.g. `2026-04-23T11:20:00Z`). Set whenever you actually fetched in this run. 8. evidence[].address, when present, must be `^0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$` (mixed case OK; checksum not validated). 9. Checklist codes (used in findings[].code and as unknowns[] prefixes) match `^[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,16}$` — start with an uppercase letter, then digits / letters / hyphens. Examples: `E1`, `A3b`, `C2-emergency`, `V4-auditor`. No parens, spaces, dots, slashes, underscores. Use slice-defined codes verbatim. unknowns[] entries must be prefixed with the relevant code + colon (e.g. `"A3b: frontend fetch failed"`). 10. chat_url: ALWAYS null. Default share links (claude.ai/chat, chatgpt.com, gemini.google.com) require viewer login and are not publicly readable. The user enables "Share publicly" after you respond and pastes the public URL into the JSON before opening the PR. ### Thoroughness rules 11. Each per-slice body contains a "MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST". Every item must EITHER produce an evidence[] entry OR a specific unknowns[] entry naming it by code. Silent skips are rejected as incomplete. 12. Before assigning a grade other than "unknown", rationale.steelman must contain a one-sentence strongest argument for each of red / orange / green, and rationale.verdict must state which fits the evidence and why. If the steel-man for the chosen grade is weaker than for an adjacent grade, you have probably picked the wrong grade. When grade="unknown", set steelman to null and use verdict to summarize what blocked the assessment. 13. Distinguish actor classes (EOA, 2-of-3 multisig, 4-of-7+ multisig with identified signers, emergency-scoped time-capped multisig, on-chain governance vote with timelock) and function classes (claim-of-finalized vs new-request-placement, deposit vs borrow, mint vs redeem) — say which actor holds which power, on what time bound. "An admin can pause" is insufficient. 14. For on-chain slices (control, ability-to-exit, autonomy, verifiability), evidence[] must include ≥1 on-chain URL: a block-explorer URL OR a DeFiPunkd /api/{contract/read,safe/owners} URL (preferred — content-addressed when block-pinned). /api/contract/abi alone is metadata, not on-chain evidence. Source repos tell you what code SHOULD do; deployed contracts tell you what it ACTUALLY does. The "open-access" slice is exempt when claims are entirely about frontend / off-chain operator behavior. CARVE-OUT: `grading_basis="off-chain-only"` is exempt from this rule but is downweighted by the quorum bot regardless of grade. 15. Prompt-meta-check: if your verdict quotes prompt language as evidence ("the protocol meets the 'documented fallback' condition"), re-do the verdict — the prompt describes the rubric, not the protocol. Evidence cites what THIS protocol does, not what the rubric says protocols of type X do. 16. `grading_basis` is one of `"on-chain"` (default; omit field), `"off-chain-only"`, or `"mixed"`. Describes what was READ this run, not the verdict — `grade="unknown"` is allowed under any basis. Set `"off-chain-only"` ONLY when BOTH (a) ≥1 successful fetch of a docs / forum / audit / GitHub URL appears in evidence[], AND (b) ≥1 failed on-chain fetch attempt for THIS run is recorded in unknowns[] with a `-offchain` suffix. Empty `evidence[]` with `"off-chain-only"` is a category error and is rejected by the validator. Set `"mixed"` when some checklist codes were on-chain and others fell back. ABI-only finds (you read the ABI but couldn't read live state) are valid as `grade="unknown"` with the ABI cited; do not infer a grade from ABI shape alone. ### On-chain reading via the DeFiPunkd API Don't encode calldata, decode return data, or guess at ABIs by hand. Three deterministic GET endpoints return JSON with blockNumber, blockHash, raw calldata, and rawReturnData — content-addressed when block-pinned (`&block=<n>`): ABI (auto-resolves proxies): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/abi?chainId=<id>&address=0x... View call (any view method on the merged ABI; flat scalar args): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=getOwners https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=balanceOf&args=0x... Safe (threshold + owners + version in one call): https://defipunkd.com/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x... Use the BARE method name in `&method=` (e.g. `&method=totalSupply`, NOT `&method=totalSupply()`). Browser tools normalize `(` to `%28` and reject the normalized URL; bare names dodge that. Pass arguments via `&args=` (comma-separated, declaration order). Append `&block=<n>` for content-addressed evidence. Supported chainIds: 1 (ethereum), 10 (optimism), 56 (bsc), 130 (unichain), 137 (polygon), 324 (zksync), 8453 (base), 42161 (arbitrum), 43114 (avalanche), 59144 (linea), 81457 (blast), 534352 (scroll), 11155111 (sepolia). Use this API for any factual claim about contract ABI shape, view-method return values (owner(), getOwners(), getThreshold(), totalSupply(), implementation(), paused(), MIN_DELAY(), …), and Safe membership. Do NOT invent ABIs or return values from training data. Note on noisy address_book: the pinned address_book is sourced from prior assessments. It may include token deployments, oracle feeds, peripheral contracts, or mis-classified entries. Skip surfacer URLs that don't fit your slice — fetch only those whose role hints suggest control / pause / upgrade authority. ### Protocol metadata refresh (populate `protocol_metadata` in the output) DeFiLlama's pinned inputs may be stale or wrong. As a side-effect of this assessment, populate `protocol_metadata` with anything you verify. Leave fields null / empty arrays if you did not verify them — do NOT echo pinned inputs through; null means "not re-verified this run". - `github`: array of canonical source-code repo URLs. - `docs_url`: canonical developer / protocol documentation site. - `audits`: array of `{ firm, url, date }` (date as YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD). - `governance_forum`: primary discussion forum URL (Discourse, Commonwealth, etc.). - `voting_token`: `{ chain, address, symbol }` or null. Omit if not token-governed. - `bug_bounty_url`: public bug bounty page (Immunefi, HackerOne, self-hosted). - `security_contact`: private-disclosure channel — security@ email or SECURITY.md URL. Distinct from public bug bounty. - `deployed_contracts_doc`: docs page that lists deployed addresses per chain. Don't enumerate; just link. - `admin_addresses`: array of `{ chain, address, role, actor_class }` for multisig / timelock / owner / proxy-admin addresses. `actor_class` ∈ `"eoa" | "multisig" | "timelock" | "governance" | "unknown"`. These are the anchors for future runs' address_book. - `upgradeability`: `"immutable" | "upgradeable" | "mixed" | "unknown"`. "mixed" = some core contracts immutable, others behind proxies. - `about`: 2–4 sentence plain-English description. Name the user action (stake, borrow, swap, bridge, mint, redeem), the asset / market, and the distinctive mechanism (liquid staking receipt, isolated lending pools, constant-product AMM, intents auction, etc.). Do not restate category / chains / TVL. Every non-null field in `protocol_metadata` must be backed by ≥1 entry in evidence[]. --- ### Slice: AUTONOMY Evaluate this protocol's autonomy: can a failure of anything outside its own contracts cause theft or loss of user principal, loss of unclaimed yield, or materially change the protocol's expected performance? "Autonomy" is not "has zero external touchpoints" — it is "external failures are either survivable or recoverable without user loss". This slice adapts DefiScan v1's Autonomy dimension; dependencies are one of several criteria, not the whole frame. GUARDRAILS (read before grading): - Category alone (Liquid Staking, Bridge, RWA Lending, Restaking, …) does NOT force a grade. A category is a hint about where to look; the grade must come from the concrete A1–A9 findings below. - Base-chain consensus (Ethereum PoS, the chain's validator set, the canonical Deposit Contract at 0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa) is the SUBSTRATE, not a dependency, for any protocol deployed on that chain. Do not list "depends on Ethereum" as a finding. - Oracles or other integrations used by DOWNSTREAM protocols that happen to read this protocol's token (e.g. Chainlink stETH/USD consumed by Aave) are NOT this protocol's dependencies. Count only what THIS protocol's contracts call or trust on-chain. If a feed or contract appears in the protocol's docs only as reference material for third-party integrators, EXCLUDE IT ENTIRELY — do not log it as a finding even with a "peripheral" or "referenced only" caveat. - "Upgradeable admin can change things" belongs to the CONTROL slice; only count it here when the upgrade surface lets governance silently swap an external dependency (see A9). - Underlying-asset risk in opt-in, isolated markets is NOT autonomy-red on its own. When a protocol wraps third-party yield-bearing assets (LSTs, LRTs, ERC-4626 vaults, lending receipts, restaked tokens) into per-market silos that users explicitly choose, a failure of one underlying does NOT propagate to other markets and is risk the user opted into per-market. Record it under A4 with depth and propagation scope, but do not let it alone drive a red verdict — red requires an external dependency that cross-cuts the protocol or that the user did not opt into at deposit time. A failure mode that is "if the LRT you deposited is hacked, your principal in that LRT-backed market is impaired" is the underlying's autonomy story, not this protocol's; grade it on whether THIS protocol introduces additional dependencies on top. - Sub-module enumeration is mandatory before grading. If the protocol ships distinct product lines or modules (e.g., a v2 core AMM plus a newer perps/funding-rate module, a lending pool plus a separate vault layer, an L1 core plus a cross-chain extension), enumerate each in findings and grade against the WORST module weighted by its share of TVS or its blast radius. A green core does not rescue an orange/red sub-module; conversely, a small red sub-module with capped TVS may bound the overall grade to orange. Name each module by its on-chain factory or router address. If you do not know whether a module exists, that is an unknowns[] entry, not silence. EXPLICIT TVS WEIGHTING: in the verdict, state each module's approximate share of total protocol TVS (use "~X%" if exact figures unavailable; check DeFiLlama or block-explorer balances on the module's main contract) and how that share informs the weighted grade. Format: "Module A holds ~X% of TVS (grade: <g>); Module B holds ~Y% (grade: <g>); weighted overall = <grade> because <reason>." If a red sub-module holds <5% of total TVS and is capped, the overall grade may be orange; if it holds >25%, the overall grade is red. Do not let qualitative reasoning substitute for the percentages — write the numbers. MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every item below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]): - A1. External contract calls. Enumerate every external contract the core contracts call or read from (oracles, price feeds, AMM pools, lending pools, staking/deposit contracts, yield wrappers). For each, identify the address, the provider, and what user-facing function of this protocol would break or mis-price if that external contract paused, mis-reported, or behaved adversarially. Grep for "oracle", "aggregator", "getPrice", "latestAnswer", "chainlink", "pyth", "redstone" as a starting point. To verify an oracle is live and what it currently reports, hit https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=<oracle>&method=latestAnswer (or &method=latestRoundData, &method=getPrice, &method=description; use the BARE method name without parens) and cite the URL — the response includes blockNumber/blockHash and rawReturnData, which is stronger evidence than a docs page about which feed "should" be used. - A2. Off-chain actor committees reporting INTO the protocol. Oracle committees, guardian multisigs, DAO-selected validator sets acting as protocol reporters, exit-bus signers, fraud-proof challengers. For each, record committee size, quorum, who picks the members, and what mis-reporting could do (mint, burn, finalize withdrawal, freeze). Distinguish this from governance admins (control slice). NOTE ON STAKING PROTOCOLS: validator slashing and node-operator misbehavior are properties of the base-chain substrate, NOT external dependencies, when the operator set is diversified enough that a coordinated failure caps at <5% principal loss. Count validator/operator risk under A2 ONLY if the operator set is small, non-diversified, or lacks bonding / slashing-insurance / diversification mitigations. A curated set of 30+ independent operators with documented diversification falls under the mitigated path; a 3-operator LST does not. Do not cite the protocol's own risk disclosure as evidence that operator failure = principal loss unless you also check the diversification and bond mitigations. - A3. Bridge / cross-chain messaging dependencies. Only count bridges that carry material TVL or are required for a core user flow. For each, name the bridge operator (canonical L1↔L2, LayerZero, Wormhole, Axelar, custom multisig), the trust model (canonical, optimistic, light-client, guardian set), and what fraction of TVL or users ride on it. "wstETH exists on 15 chains" is not a finding unless material TVL sits there. Before listing any non-primary chain deployment as a dependency, verify it is still operational as of analysis_date — retired or sunset deployments (e.g., Lido-on-Terra, Lido-on-Solana) belong in unknowns[] or should be omitted, never cited as a current dependency. - A4. Nested collateral / restaking chains. For restaking / LRT / receipt-of-receipt designs: record the depth of the collateral chain, every actor with slashing or freezing power at each level, and whether a failure N levels deep propagates to user principal here. - A5. Fork lineage (silent check). If DeFiLlama's forkedFrom is non-empty, record it as one finding and move on. If empty, do NOT add a placeholder finding; it adds noise. - A6. Fallback mechanisms and circuit breakers. What catches an external failure? Sanity-check contracts on oracle reports, rebase bounds, pause paths triggered by bad prices, second-opinion oracles, max-per-block throughput caps, withdrawal queues that absorb bad reports. Record which A1–A4 risks are mitigated by which fallback, and which are unmitigated. For EACH fallback you cite, state its activation status explicitly: (i) LIVE and enforcing on-chain today, (ii) DEPLOYED but not yet wired / activated (e.g., interface exists but the address is zero or the role is unassigned), or (iii) DOCUMENTED / PROPOSED only (forum post, LIP draft, audit pending). Only (i) counts as mitigation for the grade. A fallback in state (ii) or (iii) should be noted but must not reduce the risk in your steel-man or verdict. If you cannot determine activation status, add an unknowns[] entry rather than assume it is live. - A7. Sequencer / L1-liveness dependency BEYOND the base-chain substrate. SCOPE — sequencer risk only counts here when the protocol IS its own L2/L3 appchain or app-rollup, where the sequencer is part of the protocol's own stack and a freeze is a protocol-level outage. A protocol permissionlessly deployed on a third-party L2 inherits that L2's sequencer as substrate, not an A7 dependency. Record the sequencer/DA trust model when A7 applies. - A8. Keeper / relayer / off-chain bot liveness. Protocols that need permissionless-but-necessary off-chain actors (liquidation bots, auto-compounders, deposit relayers, intent solvers). Record whether the role is permissionless, what degrades if nobody runs it (yield paused, bad debt accumulates, positions go stale), and whether the failure mode is graceful or catastrophic. - A9. Governance-mutable dependency surface. Can an admin or DAO action silently INTRODUCE a NEW EXTERNAL dependency — swap the oracle address to a different provider, register a new staking module that calls an untrusted contract, add a new bridge, route SY through a new external vault — without an exit window for users? Check the upgrade / router / module-registry contracts. Answer: which EXTERNAL dependencies are governance-mutable, who holds that power, and whether there is a timelock or exit window. SCOPE LIMIT — read carefully: A9 is about the *external dependency surface*, not the upgrade surface in general. "The proxyAdmin / EOA can upgrade the router implementation to arbitrary bytecode" is a CONTROL-slice finding (admin can rug), NOT an autonomy-A9 finding. A9 fires only when the upgrade specifically swaps out or adds a contract that THIS protocol calls or trusts (e.g., changing the oracle address from Chainlink to a malicious feed, registering a new SY adapter that points to a third-party vault, redirecting a bridge endpoint). If the only finding is "admin can change implementation," do not log it under A9 and do not let it drive the autonomy grade — note it under control instead. The autonomy-relevant version of the same upgrade key is "admin can swap [specific external address X] without timelock"; that requires identifying the specific external dependency that becomes mutable. STEEL-MAN (per Hard Rule 13): write one-sentence strongest arguments for red, orange, and green using the A1–A9 findings. IMPACTED TVS ESTIMATE: the headline MUST include a rough impacted-TVS figure — the fraction of protocol TVS that could be lost or frozen if the worst-unmitigated dependency you identified failed. Use "~X%" if exact numbers are unavailable, "<1%" for de minimis, "unclear" only if A1–A9 left the question genuinely open (in which case grade=unknown is usually correct). Do NOT substitute qualitative phrases like "significant" — give a number or bracket. GRADE ANCHORS (mapped to DefiScan v1 stages): - green = Stage 2 equivalent. Failure of any external dependency cannot cause loss of user principal or unclaimed yield. Either there are no material external dependencies, or every critical one has a documented fallback (A6) that keeps users whole. Governance cannot silently introduce new dependencies without an exit window (A9). Impacted TVS under any single-dependency failure: effectively 0. - orange = Stage 1 equivalent. Failure of some external dependency can cause loss of unclaimed yield, or can materially change expected performance (pause withdrawals, freeze positions, degrade price quality), but cannot cause loss of principal. Committee-based oracles with sanity checks, canonical-only bridges, fallback paths that exist but are incomplete, or governance-mutable dependencies protected by a ≥7-day timelock. Impacted TVS is bounded and recoverable. - red = Stage 0 equivalent. Failure of an external dependency CAN cause theft or loss of principal. Examples: single-provider oracle with no sanity check or fallback, material TVL on a non-canonical bridge with a guardian multisig, governance can hot-swap oracles or add staking modules with no timelock or exit window, unmitigated keeper-liveness dependency where positions become insolvent if bots stop. Impacted TVS is material. - unknown = checklist incomplete after inspecting source + verified contracts. Prefer unknown over guessing when A1/A6 could not be reconstructed. RESERVE unknown for cases where the CORE ARCHITECTURE itself is unverifiable — not for cases where you merely cannot enumerate every per-market dependency in a multi-market protocol. If the core router/factory/oracle architecture is verifiable on-chain and you can determine whether the core requires external dependencies, grade the architecture even when an exhaustive per-market external-dependency census is infeasible. Acknowledge the per-market gap in unknowns[] but still issue a grade. Refusing to grade a multi-market protocol because you cannot list every SY/vault/market is over-use of unknown; grade the architecture and say so. PROMPT-META CHECK (per Hard Rule 17): before finalizing, verify the verdict cites concrete contract addresses, docs, or code — not the rubric itself. If your verdict says "the protocol belongs to a category the rubric marks red", rewrite it with the A1–A9 finding that actually justifies the grade, or drop to grade=unknown. --- ### JSON output contract Return exactly one JSON object inside a single ```json fenced block. Shape: { "schema_version": 4, "slug": "<copy protocol.slug from the per-protocol context>", "slice": "autonomy", "snapshot_generated_at": "<copy snapshot.generated_at from the per-protocol context>", "prompt_version": 29, "analysis_date": "<copy analysis_date from the per-protocol context>", "model": "<exact model name, e.g. claude-opus-4-7 / gpt-5-thinking / gemini-3-pro>", "chat_url": null, "grading_basis": "on-chain | off-chain-only | mixed (optional; omit for on-chain)", "grade": "green | orange | red | unknown", "headline": "<one-line summary>", "short_headline": "<≤6 words, ≤80 chars; omit if you can't fit>", "rationale": { "findings": [{ "code": "E1", "text": "<concrete, source-cited finding>" }], "steelman": { "red": "<one sentence>", "orange": "<one sentence>", "green": "<one sentence>" }, "verdict": "Choosing <grade> because <reason ranking one steel-man above the others, citing specific evidence>." }, "evidence": [{ "url": "https://...", "shows": "<what this URL demonstrates>", "chain": "...", "address": "0x...", "commit": "<hex SHA>", "fetched_at": "2026-04-23T11:20:00Z" }], "unknowns": ["E3: <thing you looked for but couldn't determine>"], "protocol_metadata": { "github": ["https://github.com/org/repo"], "docs_url": "https://docs.protocol.xyz", "audits": [{ "firm": "Trail of Bits", "url": "https://...report.pdf", "date": "2025-09" }], "governance_forum": "https://forum.protocol.xyz", "voting_token": { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "symbol": "XYZ" }, "bug_bounty_url": "https://immunefi.com/bounty/protocol", "security_contact": "security@protocol.xyz", "deployed_contracts_doc": "https://docs.protocol.xyz/deployments", "admin_addresses": [{ "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "role": "DAO treasury multisig", "actor_class": "multisig" }], "upgradeability": "immutable | upgradeable | mixed | unknown", "about": "<2–4 sentences>" } } Rules recap: - grade="unknown" ⇒ steelman=null; unknowns[] ≥1; evidence[] may be empty. - grade!="unknown" ⇒ steelman={red,orange,green}; evidence[] ≥1; verdict starts with "Choosing ". - findings[].code matches the slice's checklist prefix verbatim (E1, C2-emergency, V4a, …); unknowns[] entries are checklist-coded ("E3: …"). - Wrap in a single ```json fence; nothing before or after. 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### Per-protocol context (ground truth for this run) - protocol.slug: nexus-mutual - protocol.name: Nexus Mutual - protocol.chains: Ethereum - protocol.category: Insurance - protocol.website: https://nexusmutual.io/ - protocol.github: NexusMutual - protocol.audit_links: https://nexusmutual.gitbook.io/docs/helpful-resources/audits-and-security - snapshot.generated_at: 2026-06-01T11:27:13.878Z - analysis_date: 2026-06-08 - prompt_version: 29 - address_book: [ { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e", "role": "NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900", "role": "TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e", "role": "Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e", "role": "Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656", "role": "KYC auth address returned by Registry" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32", "role": "Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D", "role": "Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9", "role": "DAO treasury Safe" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1", "role": "DAO teams 3/5 multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b", "role": "token" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884", "role": "pool" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926", "role": "multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f", "role": "proxy" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f", "role": "other" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139", "role": "other" } ] ### Pre-built read-API surfacer URLs (verbatim — fetchable as-is) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e (NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900 (TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e (Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e (Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656 (KYC auth address returned by Registry) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32 (Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D (Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9 (DAO treasury Safe) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1 (DAO teams 3/5 multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b (token) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884 (pool) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926 (multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f (proxy) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f (other) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139 (other) --- You are contributing a single-slice assessment to defipunkd, a git-native transparency registry for DeFi protocols. Your JSON output will be attached to a pull request and compared against ≥2 other independent runs. Disagreements are surfaced publicly — be conservative, cite everything, return grade="unknown" when a signal cannot be determined, and resist stopping at the first damning finding. ### Per-protocol context (do not infer; these are ground truth) A "Per-protocol context" block (provided alongside this prompt — either as a user message in API mode, or as a section appended below in copy-paste mode) lists the pinned inputs (protocol.slug, name, chains, category, website, github, audit_links, snapshot.generated_at, analysis_date, prompt_version, address_book) and a list of pre-built read-API surfacer URLs for each pinned address. Treat those values as authoritative for this run. The pre-built surfacer URLs are accepted by your fetch tool's allowlist because they appear verbatim in the per-protocol context. Each surfacer page pre-executes the contract's zero-arg view methods and renders any address-typed return values as /address/{chainId}/0x… links inline — those rendered links are also fetchable post-fetch. /api/contract/read and /api/safe/owners JSON responses include a top-level `crawl.surfacers` array of /address/{chainId}/0x… URLs for every address-typed value in the result, so you can crawl directly from API responses. For addresses surfaced from non-defipunkd sources (block-explorer pages, GitHub, audit PDFs), the allowlist will reject your generated surfacer URL — record the address in protocol_metadata.admin_addresses and add a checklist-coded entry to unknowns[]; the next run will inherit it as a fetchable surfacer. ### Step 0 — Capability probe (do this before producing JSON) Identify what fetch tool your environment exposes — `web_fetch`, `browser`, `url_context`, `google_search` (with underscore, colon, or space), Bing grounding, Perplexity, `web.run`, or anything similar. Search-grounding tools ARE valid fetch paths and you should use them; they are not forbidden. The distinction that matters is what the tool returned, not its name: a grounded response with the underlying page body is sufficient evidence; a bare 1–3-line preview snippet is not. Probe: attempt one fetch of `protocol.website` and one fetch of a pre-built surfacer URL above (or the protocol's primary block-explorer page if no surfacer is pinned). Record the tool you used, the URL, and what came back (response body, HTTP status, allowlist rejection text, or "tool not present: <name>"). If either probe succeeded, proceed. If both direct probes failed, **DO NOT STOP** — try search. Issue at least two broad search queries (protocol name + "Etherscan" / "official docs" / "GitHub" / "audit"; `site:` operators against etherscan.io / github.com / the docs domain). If a search query returns the underlying page body, that page URL is fetched evidence and goes in evidence[]. Set `grading_basis: "off-chain-only"` and continue with whatever you can extract. Empty `evidence[]` + `grade="unknown"` is only valid if BOTH direct probes AND ≥2 search queries returned nothing usable; in that case, log the attempted queries and observed-zero outcomes in unknowns[]. A submission claiming "blocked" without those receipts is treated as a non-submission (zero quorum weight). Search engines do not index raw JSON API endpoints — zero results for `defipunkd.com/api/contract/read` URLs is expected and is itself a recordable failure mode, not a system restriction. ### Anti-fabrication (the most important rule on this page) Memory is not evidence. Treat your training data, prior conversations, and general knowledge as suggestions for what to look up — never as citations. Every URL in evidence[] must have been fetched in this run via any tool exposed in your environment, OR pasted into this conversation by the user. Constructing a URL is fine, but every variable part (address, commit SHA, repo path, contract name, method, args, block number) must come from a fetched/pasted source in this run, and the URL must then have been successfully fetched before it appears in evidence[]. URLs constructed from remembered addresses, repo paths, contract names, or guessed API methods are fabrication. Before emitting JSON, run an evidence ledger check on every evidence[] entry: 1. The exact URL appears in your fetch transcript or in a user-pasted source body. 2. The fetched/pasted body contains the fact you're citing in evidence[].shows. 3. Every rationale.findings / protocol_metadata claim that depends on this evidence follows directly from that body, without recourse to memory. 4. Derived (rather than verbatim) claims are explicitly labelled as derived in evidence[].shows. 5. `fetched_at` is set ONLY when you actually fetched the URL in this run; if no timestamp is available, omit the field — never invent one. If any check fails, remove the evidence entry and demote dependent claims to unknowns[]. Set grade="unknown" if demotion empties the grading basis. Do not ask the user to paste anything; do not withhold JSON; do not improvise from memory. A plausible-sounding answer backed by unsupported evidence is WORSE than grade="unknown" — it pollutes the quorum. If the assessment requires leaning on remembered public facts ("Lido is governed by LDO token-weighted voting"), historical reports, common knowledge, or likely-architecture reasoning ("UUPS proxies typically have an admin role"), return grade="unknown" with specific unknowns[] entries. Optimize for reproducibility, not completeness — if a reviewer can't re-verify each claim from the evidence URLs alone, the claim does not belong in the JSON. Empty unknowns[] on a non-trivial protocol is a red flag, not a quality signal. When the address_book is null/empty, you do not yet know any deployed address. Discover candidates from fetched website / GitHub / audit / explorer-search pages — addresses you "remember" from training data are not eligible, even for famous tokens (USDC, WBTC, stETH, UNI). If no address can be discovered after a good-faith attempt, return grade="unknown" with checklist-coded unknowns[] entries; do not invent addresses to fill the gap. ### Hard rules 1. Source classes that count as evidence: a) Public block explorers (etherscan.io, basescan.org, arbiscan.io, optimistic.etherscan.io, polygonscan.com, bscscan.com, snowtrace.io, scrollscan.com, lineascan.build, blastscan.io, era.zksync.network) for pinned addresses or addresses you discover transitively from them. b) The linked GitHub repos, at a specific commit SHA recorded in evidence[].commit. c) The audit PDFs / reports linked above. d) DeFiLlama's pinned fields (for category / chain lists only — not for risk assessment). e) DeFiPunkd's read API at https://defipunkd.com/api/{contract,safe}/... — see "On-chain reading" below. 2. If a signal cannot be determined after checking these, set grade="unknown" with ≥1 entry in unknowns[] naming what you looked for. 3. Every factual claim in rationale must map to ≥1 evidence[] entry. 4. Output exactly one JSON object matching the contract at the end, wrapped in a single ```json fenced code block. This rule applies to your FINAL assistant message only — issue tool calls freely during the run; tool-call reasoning lives in your model's tool-use channel and is not subject to this rule. Nothing before or after the fence — no prose, no follow-up questions, no requests for the user to paste anything. If evidence is incomplete, the correct response is still JSON, with claims demoted to unknowns[] and grade="unknown". ### Format rules (validation will reject submissions that violate these) 5. evidence[].url must be a bare `https://...` string — NEVER markdown link syntax. WRONG: `"url": "[Etherscan](https://etherscan.io/...)"`. RIGHT: `"url": "https://etherscan.io/..."`. 6. evidence[].commit, when present, must match `^[0-9a-f]{7,40}$` (lowercase hex, 7–40 chars). NEVER branch names or tags. Omit if you cannot pin a SHA. 7. evidence[].fetched_at, when present, must be ISO-8601 UTC (e.g. `2026-04-23T11:20:00Z`). Set whenever you actually fetched in this run. 8. evidence[].address, when present, must be `^0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$` (mixed case OK; checksum not validated). 9. Checklist codes (used in findings[].code and as unknowns[] prefixes) match `^[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,16}$` — start with an uppercase letter, then digits / letters / hyphens. Examples: `E1`, `A3b`, `C2-emergency`, `V4-auditor`. No parens, spaces, dots, slashes, underscores. Use slice-defined codes verbatim. unknowns[] entries must be prefixed with the relevant code + colon (e.g. `"A3b: frontend fetch failed"`). 10. chat_url: ALWAYS null. Default share links (claude.ai/chat, chatgpt.com, gemini.google.com) require viewer login and are not publicly readable. The user enables "Share publicly" after you respond and pastes the public URL into the JSON before opening the PR. ### Thoroughness rules 11. Each per-slice body contains a "MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST". Every item must EITHER produce an evidence[] entry OR a specific unknowns[] entry naming it by code. Silent skips are rejected as incomplete. 12. Before assigning a grade other than "unknown", rationale.steelman must contain a one-sentence strongest argument for each of red / orange / green, and rationale.verdict must state which fits the evidence and why. If the steel-man for the chosen grade is weaker than for an adjacent grade, you have probably picked the wrong grade. When grade="unknown", set steelman to null and use verdict to summarize what blocked the assessment. 13. Distinguish actor classes (EOA, 2-of-3 multisig, 4-of-7+ multisig with identified signers, emergency-scoped time-capped multisig, on-chain governance vote with timelock) and function classes (claim-of-finalized vs new-request-placement, deposit vs borrow, mint vs redeem) — say which actor holds which power, on what time bound. "An admin can pause" is insufficient. 14. For on-chain slices (control, ability-to-exit, autonomy, verifiability), evidence[] must include ≥1 on-chain URL: a block-explorer URL OR a DeFiPunkd /api/{contract/read,safe/owners} URL (preferred — content-addressed when block-pinned). /api/contract/abi alone is metadata, not on-chain evidence. Source repos tell you what code SHOULD do; deployed contracts tell you what it ACTUALLY does. The "open-access" slice is exempt when claims are entirely about frontend / off-chain operator behavior. CARVE-OUT: `grading_basis="off-chain-only"` is exempt from this rule but is downweighted by the quorum bot regardless of grade. 15. Prompt-meta-check: if your verdict quotes prompt language as evidence ("the protocol meets the 'documented fallback' condition"), re-do the verdict — the prompt describes the rubric, not the protocol. Evidence cites what THIS protocol does, not what the rubric says protocols of type X do. 16. `grading_basis` is one of `"on-chain"` (default; omit field), `"off-chain-only"`, or `"mixed"`. Describes what was READ this run, not the verdict — `grade="unknown"` is allowed under any basis. Set `"off-chain-only"` ONLY when BOTH (a) ≥1 successful fetch of a docs / forum / audit / GitHub URL appears in evidence[], AND (b) ≥1 failed on-chain fetch attempt for THIS run is recorded in unknowns[] with a `-offchain` suffix. Empty `evidence[]` with `"off-chain-only"` is a category error and is rejected by the validator. Set `"mixed"` when some checklist codes were on-chain and others fell back. ABI-only finds (you read the ABI but couldn't read live state) are valid as `grade="unknown"` with the ABI cited; do not infer a grade from ABI shape alone. ### On-chain reading via the DeFiPunkd API Don't encode calldata, decode return data, or guess at ABIs by hand. Three deterministic GET endpoints return JSON with blockNumber, blockHash, raw calldata, and rawReturnData — content-addressed when block-pinned (`&block=<n>`): ABI (auto-resolves proxies): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/abi?chainId=<id>&address=0x... View call (any view method on the merged ABI; flat scalar args): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=getOwners https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=balanceOf&args=0x... Safe (threshold + owners + version in one call): https://defipunkd.com/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x... Use the BARE method name in `&method=` (e.g. `&method=totalSupply`, NOT `&method=totalSupply()`). Browser tools normalize `(` to `%28` and reject the normalized URL; bare names dodge that. Pass arguments via `&args=` (comma-separated, declaration order). Append `&block=<n>` for content-addressed evidence. Supported chainIds: 1 (ethereum), 10 (optimism), 56 (bsc), 130 (unichain), 137 (polygon), 324 (zksync), 8453 (base), 42161 (arbitrum), 43114 (avalanche), 59144 (linea), 81457 (blast), 534352 (scroll), 11155111 (sepolia). Use this API for any factual claim about contract ABI shape, view-method return values (owner(), getOwners(), getThreshold(), totalSupply(), implementation(), paused(), MIN_DELAY(), …), and Safe membership. Do NOT invent ABIs or return values from training data. Note on noisy address_book: the pinned address_book is sourced from prior assessments. It may include token deployments, oracle feeds, peripheral contracts, or mis-classified entries. Skip surfacer URLs that don't fit your slice — fetch only those whose role hints suggest control / pause / upgrade authority. ### Protocol metadata refresh (populate `protocol_metadata` in the output) DeFiLlama's pinned inputs may be stale or wrong. As a side-effect of this assessment, populate `protocol_metadata` with anything you verify. Leave fields null / empty arrays if you did not verify them — do NOT echo pinned inputs through; null means "not re-verified this run". - `github`: array of canonical source-code repo URLs. - `docs_url`: canonical developer / protocol documentation site. - `audits`: array of `{ firm, url, date }` (date as YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD). - `governance_forum`: primary discussion forum URL (Discourse, Commonwealth, etc.). - `voting_token`: `{ chain, address, symbol }` or null. Omit if not token-governed. - `bug_bounty_url`: public bug bounty page (Immunefi, HackerOne, self-hosted). - `security_contact`: private-disclosure channel — security@ email or SECURITY.md URL. Distinct from public bug bounty. - `deployed_contracts_doc`: docs page that lists deployed addresses per chain. Don't enumerate; just link. - `admin_addresses`: array of `{ chain, address, role, actor_class }` for multisig / timelock / owner / proxy-admin addresses. `actor_class` ∈ `"eoa" | "multisig" | "timelock" | "governance" | "unknown"`. These are the anchors for future runs' address_book. - `upgradeability`: `"immutable" | "upgradeable" | "mixed" | "unknown"`. "mixed" = some core contracts immutable, others behind proxies. - `about`: 2–4 sentence plain-English description. Name the user action (stake, borrow, swap, bridge, mint, redeem), the asset / market, and the distinctive mechanism (liquid staking receipt, isolated lending pools, constant-product AMM, intents auction, etc.). Do not restate category / chains / TVL. Every non-null field in `protocol_metadata` must be backed by ≥1 entry in evidence[]. --- ### Slice: OPEN-ACCESS Evaluate who is allowed to use the protocol and whether any of that permission is granted off-chain. Scope: this slice is about ADMISSION — who can enter, exit, or transact. Operator LIVENESS (what breaks if keepers/oracles go offline) is assessed in the dependencies slice and is out of scope for the grade here. You may note operator dependencies as context, but do not let "the protocol halts if operator X disappears" drive the access grade on its own; that belongs in dependencies. Source verification / contract verification on block explorers is assessed in the verifiability slice and is out of scope here — do NOT let "contract is unverified" drive the access grade. Framing: the smart contracts are the access layer; frontends are UX. A permissionless contract is reachable by any client (SDK, third-party UI, aggregator, wallet integration). Frontend ToS, IP geo-blocking, and wallet screening are publisher policies on one specific client — they are reported as context but do NOT determine the grade. The grade hinges on (1) what the contract itself permits, and (2) whether the protocol is practically reachable without the official publisher's cooperation. Meta-check before finalizing: if your verdict cites phrases from this prompt as evidence ("the protocol meets the 'credible alternatives' condition", "this fits the 'documented fallback' rule"), redo the verdict. The prompt describes the rubric; evidence must come from the protocol. A verdict should cite what the protocol does, not what the rubric says. MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every item below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]): - A1. Whitelist / allowlist modifiers in user-facing entry points. Grep for "onlyWhitelisted", "onlyRole", "allowlist", "isAccredited", "isKYCed". Note which functions are gated and who can add/remove from the list. - A2. Off-chain operators in the admission path: keepers, sequencers, privileged relayers, oracle posters whose approval is required to admit a user action (not just to keep the protocol live). For each, identify whether the role is held by a single operator, a permissioned committee, or is permissionless. Enumerate per user-facing function class (deposit vs withdraw-request vs claim-finalized vs transfer) which ones require operator approval to be admitted, and which ones admit users unconditionally. A function whose placement is unconditional but whose downstream settlement depends on an operator is an admission-permissionless function — flag the liveness dependency as context and defer its grading weight to the dependencies slice. - A3. Frontend restrictions on the official interface — record as context, not as a grade lever. Distinguish: - A3-passive: boilerplate ToS clauses (sanctions attestation, restricted-territory self-certification, VPN-circumvention prohibition, "comply with applicable law" eligibility, age of majority). - A3-active: runtime enforcement — IP-based geo-blocking, wallet-address screening against a sanctions oracle (Chainalysis, TRM, Elliptic), KYC wall, rendering-blocking jurisdiction banner. Record findings under the correct tier. Quote ToS text or banner text in evidence[].shows. These findings populate the headline and rationale but do NOT move the grade by themselves; the grade is set by A1, A2, and the A3b path check below. - A3b. Independent access paths (the operative grade input). Enumerate paths that do not require the official publisher's cooperation: - Published SDK / library / CLI for direct contract interaction. - Third-party frontends operated by separate legal entities. - Wallet-integrated access (MetaMask Swaps, Safe apps, etc.). - DEX / lending / yield aggregators that route through the contracts. Record at least one concrete link per path that exists. The protocol does NOT have to self-document these — the test is existence, not UX cost. An A3b-i redistribution of the official UI bound by the same ToS does NOT count as an independent path. - A4. Sanctions / compliance tooling at the contract level: does the protocol check addresses against OFAC lists or similar on-chain blocklists in the contract itself? (Frontend-only screening belongs in A3.) - A5. Differentiate read access vs write access: many protocols are read-permissionless (anyone can view state) but write-gated (only certain addresses can deposit/borrow). Record both. - A6. ToS / Legal links: locate them on the website and produce a VERBATIM quote of any jurisdictional, sanctions, or eligibility clause in evidence[].shows. If you cannot extract the clause text verbatim (SPA render failure, paywall, dead link, etc.), do NOT paraphrase or infer from general knowledge — record the ToS URL in unknowns[] with the reason extraction failed. Assertions about ToS content without a verbatim quote will be downweighted by reviewers. Then write the steel-man section per Hard Rule 11. Grade rules (admission-focused; liveness concerns belong in dependencies; source verification belongs in verifiability): - green = no contract-level whitelist/KYC on user entry/exit; no operator approval required to admit a user action; AND at least one independent A3b path exists (published SDK, third-party frontend, wallet integration, or aggregator routing). Frontend ToS posture and A3-active enforcement on the official UI do NOT block green when contracts are permissionless and an independent path exists — they are reported as context. - orange = contracts admit users unconditionally, BUT the protocol is operationally captured by the official publisher: no published SDK, no third-party frontend, no wallet integration, no aggregator routing. The contract is theoretically open but practically reachable only through the official UI. Also applies when admission requires approval from a permissioned committee that is governance-managed with a documented replacement procedure. - red = contract-level whitelist / KYC on user entry/exit, OR admission of a core user action requires approval from a single privileged operator or a small committee with no documented replacement procedure, OR enforces an on-chain blocklist updatable by a single party. - unknown = checklist incomplete after checking the sources above. Default-grade guidance: when contracts are fully permissionless AND any A3b independent path exists, the default grade is green regardless of frontend ToS or A3-active enforcement on the official UI. Frontend geo-blocking, sanctions-oracle wallet screening, and ToS sanctions clauses are publisher policies on one client and are reported in findings/headline as context, not as grade levers. To grade orange on operational-capture grounds, the auditor must affirmatively show that ALL independent paths are absent or also gated. Guideline on committees: where admission depends on a multi-operator committee, the relevant axes are (a) set size, (b) whether replacement/rotation is governed on-chain, (c) whether the replacement procedure is publicly documented. A large set with on-chain governance replacement should not be graded as a single-party operator even if rotation is not instantaneous. A small set with informal replacement should be treated as a single-party operator. --- ### JSON output contract Return exactly one JSON object inside a single ```json fenced block. Shape: { "schema_version": 4, "slug": "<copy protocol.slug from the per-protocol context>", "slice": "open-access", "snapshot_generated_at": "<copy snapshot.generated_at from the per-protocol context>", "prompt_version": 29, "analysis_date": "<copy analysis_date from the per-protocol context>", "model": "<exact model name, e.g. claude-opus-4-7 / gpt-5-thinking / gemini-3-pro>", "chat_url": null, "grading_basis": "on-chain | off-chain-only | mixed (optional; omit for on-chain)", "grade": "green | orange | red | unknown", "headline": "<one-line summary>", "short_headline": "<≤6 words, ≤80 chars; omit if you can't fit>", "rationale": { "findings": [{ "code": "E1", "text": "<concrete, source-cited finding>" }], "steelman": { "red": "<one sentence>", "orange": "<one sentence>", "green": "<one sentence>" }, "verdict": "Choosing <grade> because <reason ranking one steel-man above the others, citing specific evidence>." }, "evidence": [{ "url": "https://...", "shows": "<what this URL demonstrates>", "chain": "...", "address": "0x...", "commit": "<hex SHA>", "fetched_at": "2026-04-23T11:20:00Z" }], "unknowns": ["E3: <thing you looked for but couldn't determine>"], "protocol_metadata": { "github": ["https://github.com/org/repo"], "docs_url": "https://docs.protocol.xyz", "audits": [{ "firm": "Trail of Bits", "url": "https://...report.pdf", "date": "2025-09" }], "governance_forum": "https://forum.protocol.xyz", "voting_token": { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "symbol": "XYZ" }, "bug_bounty_url": "https://immunefi.com/bounty/protocol", "security_contact": "security@protocol.xyz", "deployed_contracts_doc": "https://docs.protocol.xyz/deployments", "admin_addresses": [{ "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "role": "DAO treasury multisig", "actor_class": "multisig" }], "upgradeability": "immutable | upgradeable | mixed | unknown", "about": "<2–4 sentences>" } } Rules recap: - grade="unknown" ⇒ steelman=null; unknowns[] ≥1; evidence[] may be empty. - grade!="unknown" ⇒ steelman={red,orange,green}; evidence[] ≥1; verdict starts with "Choosing ". - findings[].code matches the slice's checklist prefix verbatim (E1, C2-emergency, V4a, …); unknowns[] entries are checklist-coded ("E3: …"). - Wrap in a single ```json fence; nothing before or after. URLs are bare strings, never markdown links. - Audit all 5 dimensions · one prompt Submit run ↗
### Per-protocol context (ground truth for this run) - protocol.slug: nexus-mutual - protocol.name: Nexus Mutual - protocol.chains: Ethereum - protocol.category: Insurance - protocol.website: https://nexusmutual.io/ - protocol.github: NexusMutual - protocol.audit_links: https://nexusmutual.gitbook.io/docs/helpful-resources/audits-and-security - snapshot.generated_at: 2026-06-01T11:27:13.878Z - analysis_date: 2026-06-08 - prompt_version: 29 - address_book: [ { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e", "role": "NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900", "role": "TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e", "role": "Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e", "role": "Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656", "role": "KYC auth address returned by Registry" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32", "role": "Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D", "role": "Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9", "role": "DAO treasury Safe" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1", "role": "DAO teams 3/5 multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b", "role": "token" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884", "role": "pool" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926", "role": "multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f", "role": "proxy" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f", "role": "other" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139", "role": "other" } ] ### Pre-built read-API surfacer URLs (verbatim — fetchable as-is) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e (NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900 (TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e (Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e (Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656 (KYC auth address returned by Registry) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32 (Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D (Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9 (DAO treasury Safe) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1 (DAO teams 3/5 multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b (token) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884 (pool) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926 (multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f (proxy) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f (other) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139 (other) --- You are contributing a single-slice assessment to defipunkd, a git-native transparency registry for DeFi protocols. Your JSON output will be attached to a pull request and compared against ≥2 other independent runs. Disagreements are surfaced publicly — be conservative, cite everything, return grade="unknown" when a signal cannot be determined, and resist stopping at the first damning finding. ### Per-protocol context (do not infer; these are ground truth) A "Per-protocol context" block (provided alongside this prompt — either as a user message in API mode, or as a section appended below in copy-paste mode) lists the pinned inputs (protocol.slug, name, chains, category, website, github, audit_links, snapshot.generated_at, analysis_date, prompt_version, address_book) and a list of pre-built read-API surfacer URLs for each pinned address. Treat those values as authoritative for this run. The pre-built surfacer URLs are accepted by your fetch tool's allowlist because they appear verbatim in the per-protocol context. Each surfacer page pre-executes the contract's zero-arg view methods and renders any address-typed return values as /address/{chainId}/0x… links inline — those rendered links are also fetchable post-fetch. /api/contract/read and /api/safe/owners JSON responses include a top-level `crawl.surfacers` array of /address/{chainId}/0x… URLs for every address-typed value in the result, so you can crawl directly from API responses. For addresses surfaced from non-defipunkd sources (block-explorer pages, GitHub, audit PDFs), the allowlist will reject your generated surfacer URL — record the address in protocol_metadata.admin_addresses and add a checklist-coded entry to unknowns[]; the next run will inherit it as a fetchable surfacer. ### Step 0 — Capability probe (do this before producing JSON) Identify what fetch tool your environment exposes — `web_fetch`, `browser`, `url_context`, `google_search` (with underscore, colon, or space), Bing grounding, Perplexity, `web.run`, or anything similar. Search-grounding tools ARE valid fetch paths and you should use them; they are not forbidden. The distinction that matters is what the tool returned, not its name: a grounded response with the underlying page body is sufficient evidence; a bare 1–3-line preview snippet is not. Probe: attempt one fetch of `protocol.website` and one fetch of a pre-built surfacer URL above (or the protocol's primary block-explorer page if no surfacer is pinned). Record the tool you used, the URL, and what came back (response body, HTTP status, allowlist rejection text, or "tool not present: <name>"). If either probe succeeded, proceed. If both direct probes failed, **DO NOT STOP** — try search. Issue at least two broad search queries (protocol name + "Etherscan" / "official docs" / "GitHub" / "audit"; `site:` operators against etherscan.io / github.com / the docs domain). If a search query returns the underlying page body, that page URL is fetched evidence and goes in evidence[]. Set `grading_basis: "off-chain-only"` and continue with whatever you can extract. Empty `evidence[]` + `grade="unknown"` is only valid if BOTH direct probes AND ≥2 search queries returned nothing usable; in that case, log the attempted queries and observed-zero outcomes in unknowns[]. A submission claiming "blocked" without those receipts is treated as a non-submission (zero quorum weight). Search engines do not index raw JSON API endpoints — zero results for `defipunkd.com/api/contract/read` URLs is expected and is itself a recordable failure mode, not a system restriction. ### Anti-fabrication (the most important rule on this page) Memory is not evidence. Treat your training data, prior conversations, and general knowledge as suggestions for what to look up — never as citations. Every URL in evidence[] must have been fetched in this run via any tool exposed in your environment, OR pasted into this conversation by the user. Constructing a URL is fine, but every variable part (address, commit SHA, repo path, contract name, method, args, block number) must come from a fetched/pasted source in this run, and the URL must then have been successfully fetched before it appears in evidence[]. URLs constructed from remembered addresses, repo paths, contract names, or guessed API methods are fabrication. Before emitting JSON, run an evidence ledger check on every evidence[] entry: 1. The exact URL appears in your fetch transcript or in a user-pasted source body. 2. The fetched/pasted body contains the fact you're citing in evidence[].shows. 3. Every rationale.findings / protocol_metadata claim that depends on this evidence follows directly from that body, without recourse to memory. 4. Derived (rather than verbatim) claims are explicitly labelled as derived in evidence[].shows. 5. `fetched_at` is set ONLY when you actually fetched the URL in this run; if no timestamp is available, omit the field — never invent one. If any check fails, remove the evidence entry and demote dependent claims to unknowns[]. Set grade="unknown" if demotion empties the grading basis. Do not ask the user to paste anything; do not withhold JSON; do not improvise from memory. A plausible-sounding answer backed by unsupported evidence is WORSE than grade="unknown" — it pollutes the quorum. If the assessment requires leaning on remembered public facts ("Lido is governed by LDO token-weighted voting"), historical reports, common knowledge, or likely-architecture reasoning ("UUPS proxies typically have an admin role"), return grade="unknown" with specific unknowns[] entries. Optimize for reproducibility, not completeness — if a reviewer can't re-verify each claim from the evidence URLs alone, the claim does not belong in the JSON. Empty unknowns[] on a non-trivial protocol is a red flag, not a quality signal. When the address_book is null/empty, you do not yet know any deployed address. Discover candidates from fetched website / GitHub / audit / explorer-search pages — addresses you "remember" from training data are not eligible, even for famous tokens (USDC, WBTC, stETH, UNI). If no address can be discovered after a good-faith attempt, return grade="unknown" with checklist-coded unknowns[] entries; do not invent addresses to fill the gap. ### Hard rules 1. Source classes that count as evidence: a) Public block explorers (etherscan.io, basescan.org, arbiscan.io, optimistic.etherscan.io, polygonscan.com, bscscan.com, snowtrace.io, scrollscan.com, lineascan.build, blastscan.io, era.zksync.network) for pinned addresses or addresses you discover transitively from them. b) The linked GitHub repos, at a specific commit SHA recorded in evidence[].commit. c) The audit PDFs / reports linked above. d) DeFiLlama's pinned fields (for category / chain lists only — not for risk assessment). e) DeFiPunkd's read API at https://defipunkd.com/api/{contract,safe}/... — see "On-chain reading" below. 2. If a signal cannot be determined after checking these, set grade="unknown" with ≥1 entry in unknowns[] naming what you looked for. 3. Every factual claim in rationale must map to ≥1 evidence[] entry. 4. Output exactly one JSON object matching the contract at the end, wrapped in a single ```json fenced code block. This rule applies to your FINAL assistant message only — issue tool calls freely during the run; tool-call reasoning lives in your model's tool-use channel and is not subject to this rule. Nothing before or after the fence — no prose, no follow-up questions, no requests for the user to paste anything. If evidence is incomplete, the correct response is still JSON, with claims demoted to unknowns[] and grade="unknown". ### Format rules (validation will reject submissions that violate these) 5. evidence[].url must be a bare `https://...` string — NEVER markdown link syntax. WRONG: `"url": "[Etherscan](https://etherscan.io/...)"`. RIGHT: `"url": "https://etherscan.io/..."`. 6. evidence[].commit, when present, must match `^[0-9a-f]{7,40}$` (lowercase hex, 7–40 chars). NEVER branch names or tags. Omit if you cannot pin a SHA. 7. evidence[].fetched_at, when present, must be ISO-8601 UTC (e.g. `2026-04-23T11:20:00Z`). Set whenever you actually fetched in this run. 8. evidence[].address, when present, must be `^0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$` (mixed case OK; checksum not validated). 9. Checklist codes (used in findings[].code and as unknowns[] prefixes) match `^[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,16}$` — start with an uppercase letter, then digits / letters / hyphens. Examples: `E1`, `A3b`, `C2-emergency`, `V4-auditor`. No parens, spaces, dots, slashes, underscores. Use slice-defined codes verbatim. unknowns[] entries must be prefixed with the relevant code + colon (e.g. `"A3b: frontend fetch failed"`). 10. chat_url: ALWAYS null. Default share links (claude.ai/chat, chatgpt.com, gemini.google.com) require viewer login and are not publicly readable. The user enables "Share publicly" after you respond and pastes the public URL into the JSON before opening the PR. ### Thoroughness rules 11. Each per-slice body contains a "MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST". Every item must EITHER produce an evidence[] entry OR a specific unknowns[] entry naming it by code. Silent skips are rejected as incomplete. 12. Before assigning a grade other than "unknown", rationale.steelman must contain a one-sentence strongest argument for each of red / orange / green, and rationale.verdict must state which fits the evidence and why. If the steel-man for the chosen grade is weaker than for an adjacent grade, you have probably picked the wrong grade. When grade="unknown", set steelman to null and use verdict to summarize what blocked the assessment. 13. Distinguish actor classes (EOA, 2-of-3 multisig, 4-of-7+ multisig with identified signers, emergency-scoped time-capped multisig, on-chain governance vote with timelock) and function classes (claim-of-finalized vs new-request-placement, deposit vs borrow, mint vs redeem) — say which actor holds which power, on what time bound. "An admin can pause" is insufficient. 14. For on-chain slices (control, ability-to-exit, autonomy, verifiability), evidence[] must include ≥1 on-chain URL: a block-explorer URL OR a DeFiPunkd /api/{contract/read,safe/owners} URL (preferred — content-addressed when block-pinned). /api/contract/abi alone is metadata, not on-chain evidence. Source repos tell you what code SHOULD do; deployed contracts tell you what it ACTUALLY does. The "open-access" slice is exempt when claims are entirely about frontend / off-chain operator behavior. CARVE-OUT: `grading_basis="off-chain-only"` is exempt from this rule but is downweighted by the quorum bot regardless of grade. 15. Prompt-meta-check: if your verdict quotes prompt language as evidence ("the protocol meets the 'documented fallback' condition"), re-do the verdict — the prompt describes the rubric, not the protocol. Evidence cites what THIS protocol does, not what the rubric says protocols of type X do. 16. `grading_basis` is one of `"on-chain"` (default; omit field), `"off-chain-only"`, or `"mixed"`. Describes what was READ this run, not the verdict — `grade="unknown"` is allowed under any basis. Set `"off-chain-only"` ONLY when BOTH (a) ≥1 successful fetch of a docs / forum / audit / GitHub URL appears in evidence[], AND (b) ≥1 failed on-chain fetch attempt for THIS run is recorded in unknowns[] with a `-offchain` suffix. Empty `evidence[]` with `"off-chain-only"` is a category error and is rejected by the validator. Set `"mixed"` when some checklist codes were on-chain and others fell back. ABI-only finds (you read the ABI but couldn't read live state) are valid as `grade="unknown"` with the ABI cited; do not infer a grade from ABI shape alone. ### On-chain reading via the DeFiPunkd API Don't encode calldata, decode return data, or guess at ABIs by hand. Three deterministic GET endpoints return JSON with blockNumber, blockHash, raw calldata, and rawReturnData — content-addressed when block-pinned (`&block=<n>`): ABI (auto-resolves proxies): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/abi?chainId=<id>&address=0x... View call (any view method on the merged ABI; flat scalar args): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=getOwners https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=balanceOf&args=0x... Safe (threshold + owners + version in one call): https://defipunkd.com/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x... Use the BARE method name in `&method=` (e.g. `&method=totalSupply`, NOT `&method=totalSupply()`). Browser tools normalize `(` to `%28` and reject the normalized URL; bare names dodge that. Pass arguments via `&args=` (comma-separated, declaration order). Append `&block=<n>` for content-addressed evidence. Supported chainIds: 1 (ethereum), 10 (optimism), 56 (bsc), 130 (unichain), 137 (polygon), 324 (zksync), 8453 (base), 42161 (arbitrum), 43114 (avalanche), 59144 (linea), 81457 (blast), 534352 (scroll), 11155111 (sepolia). Use this API for any factual claim about contract ABI shape, view-method return values (owner(), getOwners(), getThreshold(), totalSupply(), implementation(), paused(), MIN_DELAY(), …), and Safe membership. Do NOT invent ABIs or return values from training data. Note on noisy address_book: the pinned address_book is sourced from prior assessments. It may include token deployments, oracle feeds, peripheral contracts, or mis-classified entries. Skip surfacer URLs that don't fit your slice — fetch only those whose role hints suggest control / pause / upgrade authority. ### Protocol metadata refresh (populate `protocol_metadata` in the output) DeFiLlama's pinned inputs may be stale or wrong. As a side-effect of this assessment, populate `protocol_metadata` with anything you verify. Leave fields null / empty arrays if you did not verify them — do NOT echo pinned inputs through; null means "not re-verified this run". - `github`: array of canonical source-code repo URLs. - `docs_url`: canonical developer / protocol documentation site. - `audits`: array of `{ firm, url, date }` (date as YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD). - `governance_forum`: primary discussion forum URL (Discourse, Commonwealth, etc.). - `voting_token`: `{ chain, address, symbol }` or null. Omit if not token-governed. - `bug_bounty_url`: public bug bounty page (Immunefi, HackerOne, self-hosted). - `security_contact`: private-disclosure channel — security@ email or SECURITY.md URL. Distinct from public bug bounty. - `deployed_contracts_doc`: docs page that lists deployed addresses per chain. Don't enumerate; just link. - `admin_addresses`: array of `{ chain, address, role, actor_class }` for multisig / timelock / owner / proxy-admin addresses. `actor_class` ∈ `"eoa" | "multisig" | "timelock" | "governance" | "unknown"`. These are the anchors for future runs' address_book. - `upgradeability`: `"immutable" | "upgradeable" | "mixed" | "unknown"`. "mixed" = some core contracts immutable, others behind proxies. - `about`: 2–4 sentence plain-English description. Name the user action (stake, borrow, swap, bridge, mint, redeem), the asset / market, and the distinctive mechanism (liquid staking receipt, isolated lending pools, constant-product AMM, intents auction, etc.). Do not restate category / chains / TVL. Every non-null field in `protocol_metadata` must be backed by ≥1 entry in evidence[]. --- ### Slice: CONTROL Evaluate who can change the protocol's rules, how fast, and how broadly. (Step 0 capability probe and the off-chain-only fallback live in the preamble — those rules apply here.) ### MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every item below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]) - **C1.** For each address you assess: who is the contract owner / admin / pendingAdmin / governor — read these via the block explorer's "Read Contract" tab OR `https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=owner` (BARE method names: `&method=owner`, `&method=admin`, `&method=pendingOwner`, `&method=governor`). For Safes use `/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x...`. When a protocol has multiple major versions deployed (v2/v3/v4), perform C1 reads on the NEWEST deployment separately — newer deployments often have weaker control surfaces than the legacy core. - **C2.** Upgrade mechanism: transparent proxy / UUPS / Beacon / Diamond / immutable. Identify the proxy admin address. Check upgradeability of GOVERNANCE contracts too — a Governor / Aragon Voting / OZ Governor is often itself a proxy whose admin is the Timelock. Asymmetry: when fund-holding cores are immutable AND governance has no admin path that reaches them, an upgradable Governor/Timelock is T3-only and must NOT drag the verdict below green on that basis alone (see grade rules and the "immutable cores" caveat). Only call upgradability "mixed" if you can name a concrete function on the upgradable surface that reaches T1 or T2 on user funds. - **C3.** EXECUTION PATH (enumerate every stage, in order, with delays in seconds). The operative path is usually a chain (voting → scheduler → timelock → executor; or governor → queue → execute; or Aragon Voting → DualGovernance → EmergencyProtectedTimelock → AdminExecutor). For each stage, record (a) the contract address, (b) the delay constant name + value in seconds, (c) the URL you read it from (block-explorer Read Contract OR `/api/contract/read?...&method=MIN_DELAY&block=<n>`). Do NOT stop at the first timelock-shaped contract — if its admin is itself called by another contract, keep walking. The grading delay is the SUM OF DELAYS ON THE UNCONTESTED FAST PATH (shortest time a proposal with no opposition can go from submission to executable). Dynamic / contested extensions (veto signaling, rage quit, escrow delay) are modifiers, not the basis — note them separately. - **C4.** Enumerate EVERY multisig with reachable control — main proxy admin, emergency activation, emergency execution, reseal / pause, gate-seal committees, tiebreaker, per-module admins. For each Safe, fetch threshold + owners + version via `/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x...` (response includes raw eth_call data, so the URL is citable evidence). Enumerate ops/council/incentives multisigs even when off the upgrade path — record their scope so a reader can see they are NOT on the upgrade path. For each: (a) address, (b) threshold / total signers, (c) signer identities classified as insider (team, paid auditors under ongoing engagement, mandated service providers) vs non-insider (independent community members, unaffiliated researchers), (d) the specific power held (upgrade, pause, parameter, etc.). - **C5.** On-chain governance: Governor / GovernorBravo / OZ Governor / Aragon Voting with token-weighted voting? Record proposal threshold, voting period, quorum, and the timelock delay between queue and execute. Every numeric constant must come from a Read Contract call you can link to, or be in unknowns[] with the C-code. If votingDelay / votingPeriod are denominated in BLOCKS, convert to seconds at the chain's CURRENT block time (Ethereum mainnet ≈ 12s post-Merge, not the 15s in older Compound/Bravo deployments) — cite both block count and converted seconds. - **C6.** EMERGENCY POWERS: separate emergency-pause / guardian role with a different time cap or different actor than the main upgrade authority? Record it explicitly. - **C7.** POWER TIER (blast radius). For each privileged path in C3–C6, classify the WORST thing that path can do, choosing the highest applicable tier. Cite the specific function name and any on-chain bound — tier claims without a named function are unsupported. - **T1 — FUND-CRITICAL**: replace implementation of contracts holding user funds; change AMM math / accounting / collateral logic; mint unbacked debt or shares; pause withdrawals; drain user-fund treasury; change oracle to attacker-controlled source; replace upgrade admin with EOA. - **T2 — ECONOMICALLY MATERIAL**: change fee parameters within bounded ranges; redirect protocol fees; add/remove markets / collateral types; bounded inflation or token mint within hard-capped schedule; spend protocol-owned (non-user) treasury. - **T3 — GOVERNANCE-INTERNAL**: change voting rules, quorum, voting period, proposal threshold; upgrade the Governor itself; rotate Timelock admin; mint governance tokens within a capped annual schedule. - **T4 — OPERATIONAL**: incentives distribution, grants, ENS / frontend canonicalization, deployment coordination, periphery router deprecation. The grade is set by the HIGHEST tier reachable on the uncontested fast path, not the median. State the tier and the binding function in the verdict. ### Read Contract discipline (applies to C3, C4, C5) Every numeric constant cited (timelock delays, voting periods, multisig thresholds, quorum percentages) must come from EITHER (a) a block-explorer Read Contract URL, OR (b) a DeFiPunkd `/api/contract/read` or `/api/safe/owners` URL (preferred with `&block=<n>` for content-addressed evidence), OR (c) an unknowns[] entry with the C-code. Docs / blog posts are corroboration only — they cannot be the sole citation for a value that is also readable on-chain. ### Off-chain-only substitute hierarchy (when grading_basis="off-chain-only" — see preamble Rule 16) When on-chain reads were genuinely unreachable this run, eligible off-chain substitutes in priority order: 1. Linked audit PDFs (admin roles, multisig members, timelock delays usually enumerated). 2. Governance forum posts that quote constants from a successful on-chain proposal (cite post URL + linked execution-tx URL). 3. Official protocol docs pages with named addresses and roles (must be on a domain owned by the protocol). 4. GitHub README / SECURITY.md / governance/*.md at a pinned commit SHA. Forbidden substitutes: third-party blog posts, X / Twitter threads, search-result snippets, model memory. Required degradation: any C-code citing a numeric constant from docs/forum/audit prose ONLY must also carry an `unknowns[]` entry with `-offchain` suffix noting "value not re-read on-chain in this run; corroboration only". ### Grade rules (apply the timelock bar conditional on the highest C7 tier reachable on the fast path) Security Council standard (used below): a multisig qualifies as "Security Council" only if ALL of: ≥7 signers, ≥51% threshold, ≥50% non-insider signers, every signer publicly announced. Failing any criterion = NOT a Security Council, regardless of signer reputation. - **green**: highest reachable tier is T3 or T4 regardless of timelock; OR T2 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay ≥7 days; OR T1 reachable only via immutable contracts (T1 is unreachable); OR T1 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay ≥7 days combined with a Security Council multisig; OR T1 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay ≥7 days through active on-chain governance with broad token distribution. - **orange**: T2 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay >0 but <7 days; OR T1 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay >0 but <7 days; OR a multisig failing one or more Security Council criteria sits on a T1/T2 path; OR unclear upgrade authority on a T1/T2 path; OR governance with very short timelock or low quorum on a T1/T2 path. - **red**: T1 reachable with no timelock by a single EOA or 2-of-3 multisig; OR a T1 upgrade admin that is not a smart contract you can audit. - **unknown**: completed the checklist but still cannot determine the upgrade authority OR cannot classify the highest tier reachable on the main contracts. Tiering caveats: - "Bounded" must be enforced ON-CHAIN to count as T2. A function that sets fees with no upper-bound check is T1 — cite the bound check. - Recurring T2 economic extraction (e.g. fee redirect with no rate limit) approaches T1 over time. A single proposal that can permanently redirect all future revenue is T1. - T3 assumes the governance contract cannot itself authorize a T1/T2 action without going through the same timelock. If governance can self-upgrade to bypass the timelock, T3 collapses into T1. - Do not downgrade tier by hand-waving ("realistically governance would never…"). Tier on what the contract permits, not what feels likely. Notes: - **Dynamic / dual-governance timelocks** (Lido, Compound escrow veto): the rubric grades on the uncontested path because that is the path most upgrades take. A dynamic extension that fires only under stake-weighted opposition is a real protection — name it in the green steel-man, but it does not lift an orange fast path into green; state the tension in the verdict. - **Immutable cores with upgradable governance** (Uniswap-style): if fund-holding contracts are immutable and have no admin-reachable function moving / freezing / re-routing user funds, the highest reachable tier on the upgrade path is T3 — green regardless of timelock. Don't grade this orange just because the Governor is a proxy — that's a C2 fact, not a downgrade. Downgrade only applies if you can cite a concrete function on the upgradable surface that reaches T1 or T2 (privileged hook, upgradable factory controlling fund-routing, fee-switch redirecting protocol revenue without bound). - **The 7-day bar** reflects the exit-window standard — users need notice after a queued upgrade to withdraw if they disagree. The ability-to-exit slice grades the exit side; this slice grades the delay side; both must hold for users to actually benefit from the delay. --- ### Slice: ABILITY-TO-EXIT Evaluate whether users can withdraw their funds on their own terms, even under adversarial admin conditions. MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every item below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]): - E1. Enumerate every user-facing exit function in the main contracts: withdraw, redeem, burn, requestWithdrawal, claim, exit, etc. List them by name. Do NOT treat the contract as a monolith. - E2. For EACH exit function in E1: identify its access modifiers and any pause guards (e.g. _checkResumed, whenNotPaused, onlyRole). Functions that gate REQUEST PLACEMENT often differ from functions that CLAIM FINALIZED FUNDS — check both separately. - E3. For each pause guard: identify the role holder (which address holds PAUSE_ROLE / GUARDIAN / etc.) and the maximum pause duration. Specifically check whether PAUSE_INFINITELY (or equivalent uncapped pause) is callable, and which actor can call it (single multisig vs governance vote). For role-holder reads use https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=hasRole&args=0x...,0x... or &method=getRoleAdmin&args=0x.... For "is currently paused" checks use &method=paused or &method=isPaused&args=<resume-code>. Use the BARE method name (no parens). Cite the URL with &block=<n> in evidence[]. - E4. EMERGENCY vs GOVERNANCE pause distinction: many protocols have a fast-acting emergency pause capped at N days and a slow governance pause that can be indefinite. Record both paths separately if present, with their time caps and actor classes. - E5. Queued redemption: documented maximum queue duration, daily withdrawal caps, whether the queue itself is pausable. - E6. Forced-exit / escape-hatch / permissionless emergency-exit mechanism for adversarial-admin scenarios. - E7. Frontend dependency: confirm exit functions are directly callable on-chain (e.g. via Etherscan write tab or a generic wallet) without the project's frontend. Then write the steel-man section per Hard Rule 11. Common red-vs-orange tension on this slice: indefinite pause exists (suggests red) BUT the realistic emergency path is time-capped AND claims of already-finalized exits are not pause-gated (suggests orange). Resolve this by stating who can do what for how long, not by stopping at the worst-case sentence. Grade rules: - green = permissionless exit; pause is either absent, narrowly scoped to clearly-described emergencies with auto-expiry, or capped at ≤7 days; no frontend dependency for exit; claims of already-finalized exits are not pause-gated under any path. - orange = pausable with broad scope OR indefinite pause is reachable only through governance vote (not unilateral admin action), OR queued redemption with documented max > 7 days, OR claims-of-finalized are exempt but new-request placement can be paused indefinitely by governance. - red = exit requires admin signature, OR ANY actor (including governance) can pause CLAIMS of finalized exits indefinitely, OR there is no on-chain exit function at all (purely custodial), OR pause is held by a single EOA / 2-of-3 multisig with no time cap. - unknown = checklist incomplete after checking the sources above. --- ### Slice: AUTONOMY Evaluate this protocol's autonomy: can a failure of anything outside its own contracts cause theft or loss of user principal, loss of unclaimed yield, or materially change the protocol's expected performance? "Autonomy" is not "has zero external touchpoints" — it is "external failures are either survivable or recoverable without user loss". This slice adapts DefiScan v1's Autonomy dimension; dependencies are one of several criteria, not the whole frame. GUARDRAILS (read before grading): - Category alone (Liquid Staking, Bridge, RWA Lending, Restaking, …) does NOT force a grade. A category is a hint about where to look; the grade must come from the concrete A1–A9 findings below. - Base-chain consensus (Ethereum PoS, the chain's validator set, the canonical Deposit Contract at 0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa) is the SUBSTRATE, not a dependency, for any protocol deployed on that chain. Do not list "depends on Ethereum" as a finding. - Oracles or other integrations used by DOWNSTREAM protocols that happen to read this protocol's token (e.g. Chainlink stETH/USD consumed by Aave) are NOT this protocol's dependencies. Count only what THIS protocol's contracts call or trust on-chain. If a feed or contract appears in the protocol's docs only as reference material for third-party integrators, EXCLUDE IT ENTIRELY — do not log it as a finding even with a "peripheral" or "referenced only" caveat. - "Upgradeable admin can change things" belongs to the CONTROL slice; only count it here when the upgrade surface lets governance silently swap an external dependency (see A9). - Underlying-asset risk in opt-in, isolated markets is NOT autonomy-red on its own. When a protocol wraps third-party yield-bearing assets (LSTs, LRTs, ERC-4626 vaults, lending receipts, restaked tokens) into per-market silos that users explicitly choose, a failure of one underlying does NOT propagate to other markets and is risk the user opted into per-market. Record it under A4 with depth and propagation scope, but do not let it alone drive a red verdict — red requires an external dependency that cross-cuts the protocol or that the user did not opt into at deposit time. A failure mode that is "if the LRT you deposited is hacked, your principal in that LRT-backed market is impaired" is the underlying's autonomy story, not this protocol's; grade it on whether THIS protocol introduces additional dependencies on top. - Sub-module enumeration is mandatory before grading. If the protocol ships distinct product lines or modules (e.g., a v2 core AMM plus a newer perps/funding-rate module, a lending pool plus a separate vault layer, an L1 core plus a cross-chain extension), enumerate each in findings and grade against the WORST module weighted by its share of TVS or its blast radius. A green core does not rescue an orange/red sub-module; conversely, a small red sub-module with capped TVS may bound the overall grade to orange. Name each module by its on-chain factory or router address. If you do not know whether a module exists, that is an unknowns[] entry, not silence. EXPLICIT TVS WEIGHTING: in the verdict, state each module's approximate share of total protocol TVS (use "~X%" if exact figures unavailable; check DeFiLlama or block-explorer balances on the module's main contract) and how that share informs the weighted grade. Format: "Module A holds ~X% of TVS (grade: <g>); Module B holds ~Y% (grade: <g>); weighted overall = <grade> because <reason>." If a red sub-module holds <5% of total TVS and is capped, the overall grade may be orange; if it holds >25%, the overall grade is red. Do not let qualitative reasoning substitute for the percentages — write the numbers. MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every item below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]): - A1. External contract calls. Enumerate every external contract the core contracts call or read from (oracles, price feeds, AMM pools, lending pools, staking/deposit contracts, yield wrappers). For each, identify the address, the provider, and what user-facing function of this protocol would break or mis-price if that external contract paused, mis-reported, or behaved adversarially. Grep for "oracle", "aggregator", "getPrice", "latestAnswer", "chainlink", "pyth", "redstone" as a starting point. To verify an oracle is live and what it currently reports, hit https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=<oracle>&method=latestAnswer (or &method=latestRoundData, &method=getPrice, &method=description; use the BARE method name without parens) and cite the URL — the response includes blockNumber/blockHash and rawReturnData, which is stronger evidence than a docs page about which feed "should" be used. - A2. Off-chain actor committees reporting INTO the protocol. Oracle committees, guardian multisigs, DAO-selected validator sets acting as protocol reporters, exit-bus signers, fraud-proof challengers. For each, record committee size, quorum, who picks the members, and what mis-reporting could do (mint, burn, finalize withdrawal, freeze). Distinguish this from governance admins (control slice). NOTE ON STAKING PROTOCOLS: validator slashing and node-operator misbehavior are properties of the base-chain substrate, NOT external dependencies, when the operator set is diversified enough that a coordinated failure caps at <5% principal loss. Count validator/operator risk under A2 ONLY if the operator set is small, non-diversified, or lacks bonding / slashing-insurance / diversification mitigations. A curated set of 30+ independent operators with documented diversification falls under the mitigated path; a 3-operator LST does not. Do not cite the protocol's own risk disclosure as evidence that operator failure = principal loss unless you also check the diversification and bond mitigations. - A3. Bridge / cross-chain messaging dependencies. Only count bridges that carry material TVL or are required for a core user flow. For each, name the bridge operator (canonical L1↔L2, LayerZero, Wormhole, Axelar, custom multisig), the trust model (canonical, optimistic, light-client, guardian set), and what fraction of TVL or users ride on it. "wstETH exists on 15 chains" is not a finding unless material TVL sits there. Before listing any non-primary chain deployment as a dependency, verify it is still operational as of analysis_date — retired or sunset deployments (e.g., Lido-on-Terra, Lido-on-Solana) belong in unknowns[] or should be omitted, never cited as a current dependency. - A4. Nested collateral / restaking chains. For restaking / LRT / receipt-of-receipt designs: record the depth of the collateral chain, every actor with slashing or freezing power at each level, and whether a failure N levels deep propagates to user principal here. - A5. Fork lineage (silent check). If DeFiLlama's forkedFrom is non-empty, record it as one finding and move on. If empty, do NOT add a placeholder finding; it adds noise. - A6. Fallback mechanisms and circuit breakers. What catches an external failure? Sanity-check contracts on oracle reports, rebase bounds, pause paths triggered by bad prices, second-opinion oracles, max-per-block throughput caps, withdrawal queues that absorb bad reports. Record which A1–A4 risks are mitigated by which fallback, and which are unmitigated. For EACH fallback you cite, state its activation status explicitly: (i) LIVE and enforcing on-chain today, (ii) DEPLOYED but not yet wired / activated (e.g., interface exists but the address is zero or the role is unassigned), or (iii) DOCUMENTED / PROPOSED only (forum post, LIP draft, audit pending). Only (i) counts as mitigation for the grade. A fallback in state (ii) or (iii) should be noted but must not reduce the risk in your steel-man or verdict. If you cannot determine activation status, add an unknowns[] entry rather than assume it is live. - A7. Sequencer / L1-liveness dependency BEYOND the base-chain substrate. SCOPE — sequencer risk only counts here when the protocol IS its own L2/L3 appchain or app-rollup, where the sequencer is part of the protocol's own stack and a freeze is a protocol-level outage. A protocol permissionlessly deployed on a third-party L2 inherits that L2's sequencer as substrate, not an A7 dependency. Record the sequencer/DA trust model when A7 applies. - A8. Keeper / relayer / off-chain bot liveness. Protocols that need permissionless-but-necessary off-chain actors (liquidation bots, auto-compounders, deposit relayers, intent solvers). Record whether the role is permissionless, what degrades if nobody runs it (yield paused, bad debt accumulates, positions go stale), and whether the failure mode is graceful or catastrophic. - A9. Governance-mutable dependency surface. Can an admin or DAO action silently INTRODUCE a NEW EXTERNAL dependency — swap the oracle address to a different provider, register a new staking module that calls an untrusted contract, add a new bridge, route SY through a new external vault — without an exit window for users? Check the upgrade / router / module-registry contracts. Answer: which EXTERNAL dependencies are governance-mutable, who holds that power, and whether there is a timelock or exit window. SCOPE LIMIT — read carefully: A9 is about the *external dependency surface*, not the upgrade surface in general. "The proxyAdmin / EOA can upgrade the router implementation to arbitrary bytecode" is a CONTROL-slice finding (admin can rug), NOT an autonomy-A9 finding. A9 fires only when the upgrade specifically swaps out or adds a contract that THIS protocol calls or trusts (e.g., changing the oracle address from Chainlink to a malicious feed, registering a new SY adapter that points to a third-party vault, redirecting a bridge endpoint). If the only finding is "admin can change implementation," do not log it under A9 and do not let it drive the autonomy grade — note it under control instead. The autonomy-relevant version of the same upgrade key is "admin can swap [specific external address X] without timelock"; that requires identifying the specific external dependency that becomes mutable. STEEL-MAN (per Hard Rule 13): write one-sentence strongest arguments for red, orange, and green using the A1–A9 findings. IMPACTED TVS ESTIMATE: the headline MUST include a rough impacted-TVS figure — the fraction of protocol TVS that could be lost or frozen if the worst-unmitigated dependency you identified failed. Use "~X%" if exact numbers are unavailable, "<1%" for de minimis, "unclear" only if A1–A9 left the question genuinely open (in which case grade=unknown is usually correct). Do NOT substitute qualitative phrases like "significant" — give a number or bracket. GRADE ANCHORS (mapped to DefiScan v1 stages): - green = Stage 2 equivalent. Failure of any external dependency cannot cause loss of user principal or unclaimed yield. Either there are no material external dependencies, or every critical one has a documented fallback (A6) that keeps users whole. Governance cannot silently introduce new dependencies without an exit window (A9). Impacted TVS under any single-dependency failure: effectively 0. - orange = Stage 1 equivalent. Failure of some external dependency can cause loss of unclaimed yield, or can materially change expected performance (pause withdrawals, freeze positions, degrade price quality), but cannot cause loss of principal. Committee-based oracles with sanity checks, canonical-only bridges, fallback paths that exist but are incomplete, or governance-mutable dependencies protected by a ≥7-day timelock. Impacted TVS is bounded and recoverable. - red = Stage 0 equivalent. Failure of an external dependency CAN cause theft or loss of principal. Examples: single-provider oracle with no sanity check or fallback, material TVL on a non-canonical bridge with a guardian multisig, governance can hot-swap oracles or add staking modules with no timelock or exit window, unmitigated keeper-liveness dependency where positions become insolvent if bots stop. Impacted TVS is material. - unknown = checklist incomplete after inspecting source + verified contracts. Prefer unknown over guessing when A1/A6 could not be reconstructed. RESERVE unknown for cases where the CORE ARCHITECTURE itself is unverifiable — not for cases where you merely cannot enumerate every per-market dependency in a multi-market protocol. If the core router/factory/oracle architecture is verifiable on-chain and you can determine whether the core requires external dependencies, grade the architecture even when an exhaustive per-market external-dependency census is infeasible. Acknowledge the per-market gap in unknowns[] but still issue a grade. Refusing to grade a multi-market protocol because you cannot list every SY/vault/market is over-use of unknown; grade the architecture and say so. PROMPT-META CHECK (per Hard Rule 17): before finalizing, verify the verdict cites concrete contract addresses, docs, or code — not the rubric itself. If your verdict says "the protocol belongs to a category the rubric marks red", rewrite it with the A1–A9 finding that actually justifies the grade, or drop to grade=unknown. --- ### Slice: OPEN-ACCESS Evaluate who is allowed to use the protocol and whether any of that permission is granted off-chain. Scope: this slice is about ADMISSION — who can enter, exit, or transact. Operator LIVENESS (what breaks if keepers/oracles go offline) is assessed in the dependencies slice and is out of scope for the grade here. You may note operator dependencies as context, but do not let "the protocol halts if operator X disappears" drive the access grade on its own; that belongs in dependencies. Source verification / contract verification on block explorers is assessed in the verifiability slice and is out of scope here — do NOT let "contract is unverified" drive the access grade. Framing: the smart contracts are the access layer; frontends are UX. A permissionless contract is reachable by any client (SDK, third-party UI, aggregator, wallet integration). Frontend ToS, IP geo-blocking, and wallet screening are publisher policies on one specific client — they are reported as context but do NOT determine the grade. The grade hinges on (1) what the contract itself permits, and (2) whether the protocol is practically reachable without the official publisher's cooperation. Meta-check before finalizing: if your verdict cites phrases from this prompt as evidence ("the protocol meets the 'credible alternatives' condition", "this fits the 'documented fallback' rule"), redo the verdict. The prompt describes the rubric; evidence must come from the protocol. A verdict should cite what the protocol does, not what the rubric says. MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every item below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]): - A1. Whitelist / allowlist modifiers in user-facing entry points. Grep for "onlyWhitelisted", "onlyRole", "allowlist", "isAccredited", "isKYCed". Note which functions are gated and who can add/remove from the list. - A2. Off-chain operators in the admission path: keepers, sequencers, privileged relayers, oracle posters whose approval is required to admit a user action (not just to keep the protocol live). For each, identify whether the role is held by a single operator, a permissioned committee, or is permissionless. Enumerate per user-facing function class (deposit vs withdraw-request vs claim-finalized vs transfer) which ones require operator approval to be admitted, and which ones admit users unconditionally. A function whose placement is unconditional but whose downstream settlement depends on an operator is an admission-permissionless function — flag the liveness dependency as context and defer its grading weight to the dependencies slice. - A3. Frontend restrictions on the official interface — record as context, not as a grade lever. Distinguish: - A3-passive: boilerplate ToS clauses (sanctions attestation, restricted-territory self-certification, VPN-circumvention prohibition, "comply with applicable law" eligibility, age of majority). - A3-active: runtime enforcement — IP-based geo-blocking, wallet-address screening against a sanctions oracle (Chainalysis, TRM, Elliptic), KYC wall, rendering-blocking jurisdiction banner. Record findings under the correct tier. Quote ToS text or banner text in evidence[].shows. These findings populate the headline and rationale but do NOT move the grade by themselves; the grade is set by A1, A2, and the A3b path check below. - A3b. Independent access paths (the operative grade input). Enumerate paths that do not require the official publisher's cooperation: - Published SDK / library / CLI for direct contract interaction. - Third-party frontends operated by separate legal entities. - Wallet-integrated access (MetaMask Swaps, Safe apps, etc.). - DEX / lending / yield aggregators that route through the contracts. Record at least one concrete link per path that exists. The protocol does NOT have to self-document these — the test is existence, not UX cost. An A3b-i redistribution of the official UI bound by the same ToS does NOT count as an independent path. - A4. Sanctions / compliance tooling at the contract level: does the protocol check addresses against OFAC lists or similar on-chain blocklists in the contract itself? (Frontend-only screening belongs in A3.) - A5. Differentiate read access vs write access: many protocols are read-permissionless (anyone can view state) but write-gated (only certain addresses can deposit/borrow). Record both. - A6. ToS / Legal links: locate them on the website and produce a VERBATIM quote of any jurisdictional, sanctions, or eligibility clause in evidence[].shows. If you cannot extract the clause text verbatim (SPA render failure, paywall, dead link, etc.), do NOT paraphrase or infer from general knowledge — record the ToS URL in unknowns[] with the reason extraction failed. Assertions about ToS content without a verbatim quote will be downweighted by reviewers. Then write the steel-man section per Hard Rule 11. Grade rules (admission-focused; liveness concerns belong in dependencies; source verification belongs in verifiability): - green = no contract-level whitelist/KYC on user entry/exit; no operator approval required to admit a user action; AND at least one independent A3b path exists (published SDK, third-party frontend, wallet integration, or aggregator routing). Frontend ToS posture and A3-active enforcement on the official UI do NOT block green when contracts are permissionless and an independent path exists — they are reported as context. - orange = contracts admit users unconditionally, BUT the protocol is operationally captured by the official publisher: no published SDK, no third-party frontend, no wallet integration, no aggregator routing. The contract is theoretically open but practically reachable only through the official UI. Also applies when admission requires approval from a permissioned committee that is governance-managed with a documented replacement procedure. - red = contract-level whitelist / KYC on user entry/exit, OR admission of a core user action requires approval from a single privileged operator or a small committee with no documented replacement procedure, OR enforces an on-chain blocklist updatable by a single party. - unknown = checklist incomplete after checking the sources above. Default-grade guidance: when contracts are fully permissionless AND any A3b independent path exists, the default grade is green regardless of frontend ToS or A3-active enforcement on the official UI. Frontend geo-blocking, sanctions-oracle wallet screening, and ToS sanctions clauses are publisher policies on one client and are reported in findings/headline as context, not as grade levers. To grade orange on operational-capture grounds, the auditor must affirmatively show that ALL independent paths are absent or also gated. Guideline on committees: where admission depends on a multi-operator committee, the relevant axes are (a) set size, (b) whether replacement/rotation is governed on-chain, (c) whether the replacement procedure is publicly documented. A large set with on-chain governance replacement should not be graded as a single-party operator even if rotation is not instantaneous. A small set with informal replacement should be treated as a single-party operator. --- ### Slice: VERIFIABILITY Evaluate whether an outsider can independently confirm what the deployed code does. MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every item below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]): - V1. For each address you assess: is the bytecode verified on the chain's block explorer? Record the "Contract Source Code Verified" indicator. https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/abi?chainId=<id>&address=0x... returns this as a top-level "verified" boolean plus "abiSource" ("etherscan" / "sourcify") and an inline ABI — useful when the explorer page is rate-limited. If the contract is a proxy, verify BOTH the proxy contract AND the current implementation contract. The same /api/contract/abi response auto-resolves proxies and includes a "proxy.implementation" address when present, so one call covers V1 + V6 in one shot. An explorer "Similar Match" on a well-known proxy pattern (Aragon AppProxyUpgradeable, ERC1967Proxy, OssifiableProxy, OZ TransparentUpgradeableProxy) is expected for that pattern and does NOT count as a verification gap on its own — what matters is that the implementation is independently verified. - V2. Source-to-repo correspondence: for each verified contract, attempt to find a matching commit in the linked GitHub repos. Record evidence[].commit on a match. Independent compile/bytecode-match is NOT required for green — a recognized public repo whose structure and file contents correspond to the explorer-visible source is sufficient. If you did not pin a commit SHA or run a bytecode diff, record that plainly in unknowns[] and proceed; it is a scope limit, not a downgrade signal. - V3. Audit coverage: for each URL in protocol.audit_links, open it and record: auditor name, audit date, the specific contracts / commit in scope. Flag audits that predate the current deployment by >6 months without a follow-up review. - V4. Auditor recognition: the following firms are broadly recognized in Solidity: Trail of Bits, Zellic, Spearbit, OpenZeppelin, ConsenSys Diligence, Certora (formal verification), Quantstamp, Halborn, Peckshield, Sigma Prime, ChainSecurity, Ackee Blockchain, MixBytes, Statemind. Unknown firms are orange-at-best for any green-grade claim. Name the firm explicitly in evidence[]. - V5. Post-audit drift: compare the most recent in-scope audit(s) against the currently-deployed source, weighted by what each contract does and by what the changes actually contain. SCOPE — drift only downgrades the grade when ALL of the following hold: (i) the drifting contract is fund-custody / settlement / accounting-critical (NOT a peripheral router, lens, quoter, or pure-view contract that holds no balances); (ii) the changes are material — new functions, modified access control, modified accounting, modified fund flow — and not refactors / struct relocations / import reorgs / build or CI fixes / formatting; (iii) no later audit, fix-audit, or differential audit from a recognized firm covers the changed files (audits often pin a pre-fix commit while a follow-up reviews the delta — match by file scope, not by commit-hash equality). When you cite drift as a downgrade reason, name the specific behavior change (function added, role granted, accounting formula altered) — "N commits ahead" or "+X/-Y LOC" alone is not evidence of material drift. If you have not sampled the diff content (e.g. via the GitHub compare view or the top commits in the window), record drift as an unknowns[] entry rather than auto-downgrading; commit-count and LOC are starting signals, not findings. - V6. Implementation vs proxy: a verified proxy with an unverified implementation is effectively unverified. State whether the implementation is verified separately. EVIDENCE DISCIPLINE (read before writing findings[]): - Do not assert a specific deploy-commit SHA, bytecode equivalence, or "identical to audited commit" unless you actually fetched the artifact that shows it (e.g., a deployed-addresses JSON you opened, an explorer page you read). Inferred or plausible matches belong in unknowns[], never in findings[] or evidence[]. - Evidence[] entries must correspond to pages/files you actually retrieved this run. A URL you did not open is not evidence. Then write the steel-man section per Hard Rule 11. Grade rules: - green = deployed bytecode verified on the explorer (proxy AND implementation if proxied; "Similar Match" on a standard proxy pattern is fine per V1), a public source repo exists whose contents correspond to the explorer-visible source, AND ≥1 audit from a recognized firm covering the currently-deployed contracts (≤6 months of drift OR drift was re-audited). A missing local compile-match is not a downgrade — record it in unknowns[] and still grade green if the other conditions hold. - orange = verified but with visible drift from the public repo, OR audit scope is stale relative to deployment, OR only minor / unknown-firm audits exist, OR only some of the main contracts are verified, OR proxy verified but implementation only partially verified. - red = unverified bytecode (or verified proxy with unverified implementation), OR no audit in protocol.audit_links, OR no public repo. - unknown = reserved for when the protocol's verifiability posture genuinely cannot be assessed (e.g., explorer and repo both inaccessible for this protocol). Do NOT use unknown merely because you, the analyst, could not run a particular check such as a bytecode diff — that goes in unknowns[] while the grade is still assigned from the evidence you do have. --- ### JSON output contract Return exactly one JSON array inside a single ```json fenced block. The array MUST contain exactly five objects, one per risk slice, in this exact order: "control", "ability-to-exit", "autonomy", "open-access", "verifiability". Do not include the discovery slice. Each object has the same shape as a normal slice submission: { "schema_version": 4, "slug": "<copy protocol.slug from the per-protocol context>", "slice": "<one of: control | ability-to-exit | autonomy | open-access | verifiability>", "snapshot_generated_at": "<copy snapshot.generated_at from the per-protocol context>", "prompt_version": 29, "analysis_date": "<copy analysis_date from the per-protocol context>", "model": "<exact model name, e.g. claude-opus-4-7 / gpt-5-thinking / gemini-3-pro>", "chat_url": null, "grading_basis": "on-chain | off-chain-only | mixed (optional; omit for on-chain)", "grade": "green | orange | red | unknown", "headline": "<one-line summary>", "short_headline": "<≤6 words, ≤80 chars; omit if you can't fit>", "rationale": { "findings": [{ "code": "E1", "text": "<concrete, source-cited finding>" }], "steelman": { "red": "<one sentence>", "orange": "<one sentence>", "green": "<one sentence>" }, "verdict": "Choosing <grade> because <reason ranking one steel-man above the others, citing specific evidence>." }, "evidence": [{ "url": "https://...", "shows": "<what this URL demonstrates>", "chain": "...", "address": "0x...", "commit": "<hex SHA>", "fetched_at": "2026-04-23T11:20:00Z" }], "unknowns": ["E3: <thing you looked for but couldn't determine>"], "protocol_metadata": { "github": ["https://github.com/org/repo"], "docs_url": "https://docs.protocol.xyz", "audits": [{ "firm": "Trail of Bits", "url": "https://...report.pdf", "date": "2025-09" }], "governance_forum": "https://forum.protocol.xyz", "voting_token": { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "symbol": "XYZ" }, "bug_bounty_url": "https://immunefi.com/bounty/protocol", "security_contact": "security@protocol.xyz", "deployed_contracts_doc": "https://docs.protocol.xyz/deployments", "admin_addresses": [{ "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "role": "DAO treasury multisig", "actor_class": "multisig" }], "upgradeability": "immutable | upgradeable | mixed | unknown", "about": "<2–4 sentences>" } } Rules recap: - Produce one complete object for each of these slices only: control, ability-to-exit, autonomy, open-access, verifiability. - Reuse the same model, chat_url, snapshot_generated_at, prompt_version, analysis_date, and slug values across all five objects. - grade="unknown" ⇒ steelman=null; unknowns[] ≥1; evidence[] may be empty. - grade!="unknown" ⇒ steelman={red,orange,green}; evidence[] ≥1; verdict starts with "Choosing ". - findings[].code matches that object's slice checklist prefix verbatim (C1, E2, AU3, A3b, V4a, …); unknowns[] entries are checklist-coded ("C3: …"). - Wrap the array in a single ```json fence; nothing before or after. URLs are bare strings, never markdown links.
- All major contracts verified; public repo exists; primary auditor (iosiro) not in broadly-recognized list; v3 Registry/Governor architecture may post-date last in-scope audit
Verdict
Choosing orange because (a) all main contracts are verified on Etherscan including their implementations (V1, V6 satisfied), (b) a public source repo exists at NexusMutual/smart-contracts (V2 satisfied), but (c) the dominant auditor (iosiro) is not on the prompt's broadly-recognized list — per V4 the rubric explicitly caps such cases at orange, and (d) the v3 Registry/Governor architecture providing fund-custody upgrade authority appears to post-date the last public audit by a meaningful interval. Green is unreachable under V4 without a recognized-firm audit on the current deployment; red is not warranted because verification, repo, and multiple audits (including iosiro's specialized history) all exist.
Steelman argument
Steelman argument Every major contract is verified on Etherscan (both proxy and implementation), the GitHub repo is public and active with 32 releases and a v3.3.0 release in Feb 2026, iosiro has been the consistent auditor since 2021 with deep familiarity, and Chaos Labs provided an economic audit of the RAMM tokenomics — but iosiro is not on the prompt's broadly-recognized list, which the rubric explicitly designates as orange-at-best, and the v3 Registry/Governor architecture has not been visibly audited by a recognized firm.Evidence (6)
- V1
- Etherscan / DeFiPunkd ABI-source reads confirm all surfaced contracts are verified: NXMaster (0x01BFd826...0cD07e) abiSource=etherscan; Registry (0xcafea2c5...236b9e) abiSource=etherscan; Governor (0xcafea606...82Ca32) abiSource=etherscan; Pool1 legacy (0xfD61352...E1884) abiSource=etherscan; MemberRoles (0x055CC48f...3926) abiSource=etherscan; NXMToken (0xd7c49CEE...4Cf3B) abiSource=etherscan; Emergency Pause Safe (0x422D71fb...2995D) abiSource=etherscan. Additional verified contracts cited via Etherscan: Capital Pool (0xcafea917...697cb), Pool V2 (0xcafea112...0627), Claims (0x813174d3...176139), Community Fund (0x586b9b2f...6e9), Legacy Claim Proofs (0xcafea81b...0B6775).
- V2
- Public source repository: https://github.com/NexusMutual/smart-contracts (181 stars, 6,863 commits, GPL-3.0). Latest release v3.3.0 published 2026-02-24; 32 total releases. The repo organization mirrors the on-chain contract structure (contracts/ directory with modules for cover/staking/governance/pool/oracle). Independent compile/bytecode-match not attempted this run — recorded in unknowns rather than treated as a downgrade signal.
- V3
- Audit timeline from official docs (newest to oldest): iosiro March 2025 (Cover Edit + Limit Orders + Staking Pool Fix), iosiro January 2025 (Product Pricing Changes), iosiro November 2024 (USD Price Feed Oracle), iosiro September 2024 (Long Term Limit Order), iosiro August 2024 (Staking Pool Fixes + NXM Batch Withdrawal), iosiro July 2024 (CoverProducts Refactor + Total Active Cover Fix), iosiro March 2024 (Swap Operator Asset to Asset), iosiro January 2024 (Safe Tracker), iosiro October 2023 (RAMM), Chaos Labs October 2023 (RAMM economic audit), iosiro November 2022 – March 2023 (V2 Audit of contracts/modules), iosiro May 2021 + June 2021 (multiple), G0 Group June 2020 / November 2020 / March 2021, Solidified April 2019.
- V4
- Auditor recognition: iosiro (the dominant auditor across 10+ Nexus Mutual audits since 2021) is NOT in the prompt's broadly-recognized list (Trail of Bits, Zellic, Spearbit, OpenZeppelin, ConsenSys Diligence, Certora, Quantstamp, Halborn, Peckshield, Sigma Prime, ChainSecurity, Ackee Blockchain, MixBytes, Statemind). Chaos Labs (economic audit, October 2023) is reputable for economic modeling but did not audit the smart-contract bytecode. Solidified (April 2019) and G0 Group are also outside the broadly-recognized list. No audit from a broadly-recognized firm on the currently-deployed contracts was found.
- V5
- Post-audit drift: The most recent in-scope audit is iosiro March 2025 (Cover Edit, Limit Orders, Staking Pool Fix). The GitHub repo's latest release v3.3.0 was published 2026-02-24 — approximately 11 months after the last audit. The v3 Registry / Governor / Pool architecture (Registry at 0xcafea2c5...236b9e, Governor at 0xcafea606...82Ca32) introduces materially new fund-control surfaces (Registry.upgradeContract, Registry.addContract, Governor.execute) whose audit coverage by a recognized firm is not visible from the public audits page. Specific drifted contracts (Registry, Governor) hold fund-custody upgrade authority, so this is material drift per the V5 SCOPE rule. Diff content not sampled this run — flagging in unknowns rather than treating as confirmed material drift, but the audit-staleness vector alone supports orange.
- V6
- Proxy + implementation both verified: NXMaster proxy 0x01BFd826...0cD07e → implementation 0xcafea223...A438 (etherscan); Registry proxy 0xcafea2c5...236b9e → implementation 0xcafeaC64...500E (etherscan); Governor proxy 0xcafea606...82Ca32 → implementation 0xcafea466...A830 (etherscan); MemberRoles proxy 0x055CC48f...3926 → implementation 0xcafea01C...d2B1 (etherscan); PooledStaking proxy 0x84EdfFA1...272f → implementation 0xcafea865...2829 (etherscan).
Why is this consensus tentative?- weak consensus margin
A fresh independent run can strengthen (or overturn) the verdict.
Run your own prompt Submit run ↗### Per-protocol context (ground truth for this run) - protocol.slug: nexus-mutual - protocol.name: Nexus Mutual - protocol.chains: Ethereum - protocol.category: Insurance - protocol.website: https://nexusmutual.io/ - protocol.github: NexusMutual - protocol.audit_links: https://nexusmutual.gitbook.io/docs/helpful-resources/audits-and-security - snapshot.generated_at: 2026-06-01T11:27:13.878Z - analysis_date: 2026-06-08 - prompt_version: 29 - address_book: [ { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e", "role": "NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900", "role": "TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e", "role": "Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e", "role": "Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656", "role": "KYC auth address returned by Registry" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32", "role": "Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D", "role": "Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9", "role": "DAO treasury Safe" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1", "role": "DAO teams 3/5 multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b", "role": "token" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884", "role": "pool" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926", "role": "multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f", "role": "proxy" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f", "role": "other" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139", "role": "other" } ] ### Pre-built read-API surfacer URLs (verbatim — fetchable as-is) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e (NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900 (TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e (Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e (Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656 (KYC auth address returned by Registry) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32 (Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D (Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9 (DAO treasury Safe) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1 (DAO teams 3/5 multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b (token) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884 (pool) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926 (multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f (proxy) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f (other) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139 (other) --- You are contributing a single-slice assessment to defipunkd, a git-native transparency registry for DeFi protocols. Your JSON output will be attached to a pull request and compared against ≥2 other independent runs. Disagreements are surfaced publicly — be conservative, cite everything, return grade="unknown" when a signal cannot be determined, and resist stopping at the first damning finding. ### Per-protocol context (do not infer; these are ground truth) A "Per-protocol context" block (provided alongside this prompt — either as a user message in API mode, or as a section appended below in copy-paste mode) lists the pinned inputs (protocol.slug, name, chains, category, website, github, audit_links, snapshot.generated_at, analysis_date, prompt_version, address_book) and a list of pre-built read-API surfacer URLs for each pinned address. Treat those values as authoritative for this run. The pre-built surfacer URLs are accepted by your fetch tool's allowlist because they appear verbatim in the per-protocol context. Each surfacer page pre-executes the contract's zero-arg view methods and renders any address-typed return values as /address/{chainId}/0x… links inline — those rendered links are also fetchable post-fetch. /api/contract/read and /api/safe/owners JSON responses include a top-level `crawl.surfacers` array of /address/{chainId}/0x… URLs for every address-typed value in the result, so you can crawl directly from API responses. For addresses surfaced from non-defipunkd sources (block-explorer pages, GitHub, audit PDFs), the allowlist will reject your generated surfacer URL — record the address in protocol_metadata.admin_addresses and add a checklist-coded entry to unknowns[]; the next run will inherit it as a fetchable surfacer. ### Step 0 — Capability probe (do this before producing JSON) Identify what fetch tool your environment exposes — `web_fetch`, `browser`, `url_context`, `google_search` (with underscore, colon, or space), Bing grounding, Perplexity, `web.run`, or anything similar. Search-grounding tools ARE valid fetch paths and you should use them; they are not forbidden. The distinction that matters is what the tool returned, not its name: a grounded response with the underlying page body is sufficient evidence; a bare 1–3-line preview snippet is not. Probe: attempt one fetch of `protocol.website` and one fetch of a pre-built surfacer URL above (or the protocol's primary block-explorer page if no surfacer is pinned). Record the tool you used, the URL, and what came back (response body, HTTP status, allowlist rejection text, or "tool not present: <name>"). If either probe succeeded, proceed. If both direct probes failed, **DO NOT STOP** — try search. Issue at least two broad search queries (protocol name + "Etherscan" / "official docs" / "GitHub" / "audit"; `site:` operators against etherscan.io / github.com / the docs domain). If a search query returns the underlying page body, that page URL is fetched evidence and goes in evidence[]. Set `grading_basis: "off-chain-only"` and continue with whatever you can extract. Empty `evidence[]` + `grade="unknown"` is only valid if BOTH direct probes AND ≥2 search queries returned nothing usable; in that case, log the attempted queries and observed-zero outcomes in unknowns[]. A submission claiming "blocked" without those receipts is treated as a non-submission (zero quorum weight). Search engines do not index raw JSON API endpoints — zero results for `defipunkd.com/api/contract/read` URLs is expected and is itself a recordable failure mode, not a system restriction. ### Anti-fabrication (the most important rule on this page) Memory is not evidence. Treat your training data, prior conversations, and general knowledge as suggestions for what to look up — never as citations. Every URL in evidence[] must have been fetched in this run via any tool exposed in your environment, OR pasted into this conversation by the user. Constructing a URL is fine, but every variable part (address, commit SHA, repo path, contract name, method, args, block number) must come from a fetched/pasted source in this run, and the URL must then have been successfully fetched before it appears in evidence[]. URLs constructed from remembered addresses, repo paths, contract names, or guessed API methods are fabrication. Before emitting JSON, run an evidence ledger check on every evidence[] entry: 1. The exact URL appears in your fetch transcript or in a user-pasted source body. 2. The fetched/pasted body contains the fact you're citing in evidence[].shows. 3. Every rationale.findings / protocol_metadata claim that depends on this evidence follows directly from that body, without recourse to memory. 4. Derived (rather than verbatim) claims are explicitly labelled as derived in evidence[].shows. 5. `fetched_at` is set ONLY when you actually fetched the URL in this run; if no timestamp is available, omit the field — never invent one. If any check fails, remove the evidence entry and demote dependent claims to unknowns[]. Set grade="unknown" if demotion empties the grading basis. Do not ask the user to paste anything; do not withhold JSON; do not improvise from memory. A plausible-sounding answer backed by unsupported evidence is WORSE than grade="unknown" — it pollutes the quorum. If the assessment requires leaning on remembered public facts ("Lido is governed by LDO token-weighted voting"), historical reports, common knowledge, or likely-architecture reasoning ("UUPS proxies typically have an admin role"), return grade="unknown" with specific unknowns[] entries. Optimize for reproducibility, not completeness — if a reviewer can't re-verify each claim from the evidence URLs alone, the claim does not belong in the JSON. Empty unknowns[] on a non-trivial protocol is a red flag, not a quality signal. When the address_book is null/empty, you do not yet know any deployed address. Discover candidates from fetched website / GitHub / audit / explorer-search pages — addresses you "remember" from training data are not eligible, even for famous tokens (USDC, WBTC, stETH, UNI). If no address can be discovered after a good-faith attempt, return grade="unknown" with checklist-coded unknowns[] entries; do not invent addresses to fill the gap. ### Hard rules 1. Source classes that count as evidence: a) Public block explorers (etherscan.io, basescan.org, arbiscan.io, optimistic.etherscan.io, polygonscan.com, bscscan.com, snowtrace.io, scrollscan.com, lineascan.build, blastscan.io, era.zksync.network) for pinned addresses or addresses you discover transitively from them. b) The linked GitHub repos, at a specific commit SHA recorded in evidence[].commit. c) The audit PDFs / reports linked above. d) DeFiLlama's pinned fields (for category / chain lists only — not for risk assessment). e) DeFiPunkd's read API at https://defipunkd.com/api/{contract,safe}/... — see "On-chain reading" below. 2. If a signal cannot be determined after checking these, set grade="unknown" with ≥1 entry in unknowns[] naming what you looked for. 3. Every factual claim in rationale must map to ≥1 evidence[] entry. 4. Output exactly one JSON object matching the contract at the end, wrapped in a single ```json fenced code block. This rule applies to your FINAL assistant message only — issue tool calls freely during the run; tool-call reasoning lives in your model's tool-use channel and is not subject to this rule. Nothing before or after the fence — no prose, no follow-up questions, no requests for the user to paste anything. If evidence is incomplete, the correct response is still JSON, with claims demoted to unknowns[] and grade="unknown". ### Format rules (validation will reject submissions that violate these) 5. evidence[].url must be a bare `https://...` string — NEVER markdown link syntax. WRONG: `"url": "[Etherscan](https://etherscan.io/...)"`. RIGHT: `"url": "https://etherscan.io/..."`. 6. evidence[].commit, when present, must match `^[0-9a-f]{7,40}$` (lowercase hex, 7–40 chars). NEVER branch names or tags. Omit if you cannot pin a SHA. 7. evidence[].fetched_at, when present, must be ISO-8601 UTC (e.g. `2026-04-23T11:20:00Z`). Set whenever you actually fetched in this run. 8. evidence[].address, when present, must be `^0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$` (mixed case OK; checksum not validated). 9. Checklist codes (used in findings[].code and as unknowns[] prefixes) match `^[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,16}$` — start with an uppercase letter, then digits / letters / hyphens. Examples: `E1`, `A3b`, `C2-emergency`, `V4-auditor`. No parens, spaces, dots, slashes, underscores. Use slice-defined codes verbatim. unknowns[] entries must be prefixed with the relevant code + colon (e.g. `"A3b: frontend fetch failed"`). 10. chat_url: ALWAYS null. Default share links (claude.ai/chat, chatgpt.com, gemini.google.com) require viewer login and are not publicly readable. The user enables "Share publicly" after you respond and pastes the public URL into the JSON before opening the PR. ### Thoroughness rules 11. Each per-slice body contains a "MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST". Every item must EITHER produce an evidence[] entry OR a specific unknowns[] entry naming it by code. Silent skips are rejected as incomplete. 12. Before assigning a grade other than "unknown", rationale.steelman must contain a one-sentence strongest argument for each of red / orange / green, and rationale.verdict must state which fits the evidence and why. If the steel-man for the chosen grade is weaker than for an adjacent grade, you have probably picked the wrong grade. When grade="unknown", set steelman to null and use verdict to summarize what blocked the assessment. 13. Distinguish actor classes (EOA, 2-of-3 multisig, 4-of-7+ multisig with identified signers, emergency-scoped time-capped multisig, on-chain governance vote with timelock) and function classes (claim-of-finalized vs new-request-placement, deposit vs borrow, mint vs redeem) — say which actor holds which power, on what time bound. "An admin can pause" is insufficient. 14. For on-chain slices (control, ability-to-exit, autonomy, verifiability), evidence[] must include ≥1 on-chain URL: a block-explorer URL OR a DeFiPunkd /api/{contract/read,safe/owners} URL (preferred — content-addressed when block-pinned). /api/contract/abi alone is metadata, not on-chain evidence. Source repos tell you what code SHOULD do; deployed contracts tell you what it ACTUALLY does. The "open-access" slice is exempt when claims are entirely about frontend / off-chain operator behavior. CARVE-OUT: `grading_basis="off-chain-only"` is exempt from this rule but is downweighted by the quorum bot regardless of grade. 15. Prompt-meta-check: if your verdict quotes prompt language as evidence ("the protocol meets the 'documented fallback' condition"), re-do the verdict — the prompt describes the rubric, not the protocol. Evidence cites what THIS protocol does, not what the rubric says protocols of type X do. 16. `grading_basis` is one of `"on-chain"` (default; omit field), `"off-chain-only"`, or `"mixed"`. Describes what was READ this run, not the verdict — `grade="unknown"` is allowed under any basis. Set `"off-chain-only"` ONLY when BOTH (a) ≥1 successful fetch of a docs / forum / audit / GitHub URL appears in evidence[], AND (b) ≥1 failed on-chain fetch attempt for THIS run is recorded in unknowns[] with a `-offchain` suffix. Empty `evidence[]` with `"off-chain-only"` is a category error and is rejected by the validator. Set `"mixed"` when some checklist codes were on-chain and others fell back. ABI-only finds (you read the ABI but couldn't read live state) are valid as `grade="unknown"` with the ABI cited; do not infer a grade from ABI shape alone. ### On-chain reading via the DeFiPunkd API Don't encode calldata, decode return data, or guess at ABIs by hand. Three deterministic GET endpoints return JSON with blockNumber, blockHash, raw calldata, and rawReturnData — content-addressed when block-pinned (`&block=<n>`): ABI (auto-resolves proxies): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/abi?chainId=<id>&address=0x... View call (any view method on the merged ABI; flat scalar args): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=getOwners https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=balanceOf&args=0x... Safe (threshold + owners + version in one call): https://defipunkd.com/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x... Use the BARE method name in `&method=` (e.g. `&method=totalSupply`, NOT `&method=totalSupply()`). Browser tools normalize `(` to `%28` and reject the normalized URL; bare names dodge that. Pass arguments via `&args=` (comma-separated, declaration order). Append `&block=<n>` for content-addressed evidence. Supported chainIds: 1 (ethereum), 10 (optimism), 56 (bsc), 130 (unichain), 137 (polygon), 324 (zksync), 8453 (base), 42161 (arbitrum), 43114 (avalanche), 59144 (linea), 81457 (blast), 534352 (scroll), 11155111 (sepolia). Use this API for any factual claim about contract ABI shape, view-method return values (owner(), getOwners(), getThreshold(), totalSupply(), implementation(), paused(), MIN_DELAY(), …), and Safe membership. Do NOT invent ABIs or return values from training data. Note on noisy address_book: the pinned address_book is sourced from prior assessments. It may include token deployments, oracle feeds, peripheral contracts, or mis-classified entries. Skip surfacer URLs that don't fit your slice — fetch only those whose role hints suggest control / pause / upgrade authority. ### Protocol metadata refresh (populate `protocol_metadata` in the output) DeFiLlama's pinned inputs may be stale or wrong. As a side-effect of this assessment, populate `protocol_metadata` with anything you verify. Leave fields null / empty arrays if you did not verify them — do NOT echo pinned inputs through; null means "not re-verified this run". - `github`: array of canonical source-code repo URLs. - `docs_url`: canonical developer / protocol documentation site. - `audits`: array of `{ firm, url, date }` (date as YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD). - `governance_forum`: primary discussion forum URL (Discourse, Commonwealth, etc.). - `voting_token`: `{ chain, address, symbol }` or null. Omit if not token-governed. - `bug_bounty_url`: public bug bounty page (Immunefi, HackerOne, self-hosted). - `security_contact`: private-disclosure channel — security@ email or SECURITY.md URL. Distinct from public bug bounty. - `deployed_contracts_doc`: docs page that lists deployed addresses per chain. Don't enumerate; just link. - `admin_addresses`: array of `{ chain, address, role, actor_class }` for multisig / timelock / owner / proxy-admin addresses. `actor_class` ∈ `"eoa" | "multisig" | "timelock" | "governance" | "unknown"`. These are the anchors for future runs' address_book. - `upgradeability`: `"immutable" | "upgradeable" | "mixed" | "unknown"`. "mixed" = some core contracts immutable, others behind proxies. - `about`: 2–4 sentence plain-English description. Name the user action (stake, borrow, swap, bridge, mint, redeem), the asset / market, and the distinctive mechanism (liquid staking receipt, isolated lending pools, constant-product AMM, intents auction, etc.). Do not restate category / chains / TVL. Every non-null field in `protocol_metadata` must be backed by ≥1 entry in evidence[]. --- ### Slice: VERIFIABILITY Evaluate whether an outsider can independently confirm what the deployed code does. MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every item below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]): - V1. For each address you assess: is the bytecode verified on the chain's block explorer? Record the "Contract Source Code Verified" indicator. https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/abi?chainId=<id>&address=0x... returns this as a top-level "verified" boolean plus "abiSource" ("etherscan" / "sourcify") and an inline ABI — useful when the explorer page is rate-limited. If the contract is a proxy, verify BOTH the proxy contract AND the current implementation contract. The same /api/contract/abi response auto-resolves proxies and includes a "proxy.implementation" address when present, so one call covers V1 + V6 in one shot. An explorer "Similar Match" on a well-known proxy pattern (Aragon AppProxyUpgradeable, ERC1967Proxy, OssifiableProxy, OZ TransparentUpgradeableProxy) is expected for that pattern and does NOT count as a verification gap on its own — what matters is that the implementation is independently verified. - V2. Source-to-repo correspondence: for each verified contract, attempt to find a matching commit in the linked GitHub repos. Record evidence[].commit on a match. Independent compile/bytecode-match is NOT required for green — a recognized public repo whose structure and file contents correspond to the explorer-visible source is sufficient. If you did not pin a commit SHA or run a bytecode diff, record that plainly in unknowns[] and proceed; it is a scope limit, not a downgrade signal. - V3. Audit coverage: for each URL in protocol.audit_links, open it and record: auditor name, audit date, the specific contracts / commit in scope. Flag audits that predate the current deployment by >6 months without a follow-up review. - V4. Auditor recognition: the following firms are broadly recognized in Solidity: Trail of Bits, Zellic, Spearbit, OpenZeppelin, ConsenSys Diligence, Certora (formal verification), Quantstamp, Halborn, Peckshield, Sigma Prime, ChainSecurity, Ackee Blockchain, MixBytes, Statemind. Unknown firms are orange-at-best for any green-grade claim. Name the firm explicitly in evidence[]. - V5. Post-audit drift: compare the most recent in-scope audit(s) against the currently-deployed source, weighted by what each contract does and by what the changes actually contain. SCOPE — drift only downgrades the grade when ALL of the following hold: (i) the drifting contract is fund-custody / settlement / accounting-critical (NOT a peripheral router, lens, quoter, or pure-view contract that holds no balances); (ii) the changes are material — new functions, modified access control, modified accounting, modified fund flow — and not refactors / struct relocations / import reorgs / build or CI fixes / formatting; (iii) no later audit, fix-audit, or differential audit from a recognized firm covers the changed files (audits often pin a pre-fix commit while a follow-up reviews the delta — match by file scope, not by commit-hash equality). When you cite drift as a downgrade reason, name the specific behavior change (function added, role granted, accounting formula altered) — "N commits ahead" or "+X/-Y LOC" alone is not evidence of material drift. If you have not sampled the diff content (e.g. via the GitHub compare view or the top commits in the window), record drift as an unknowns[] entry rather than auto-downgrading; commit-count and LOC are starting signals, not findings. - V6. Implementation vs proxy: a verified proxy with an unverified implementation is effectively unverified. State whether the implementation is verified separately. EVIDENCE DISCIPLINE (read before writing findings[]): - Do not assert a specific deploy-commit SHA, bytecode equivalence, or "identical to audited commit" unless you actually fetched the artifact that shows it (e.g., a deployed-addresses JSON you opened, an explorer page you read). Inferred or plausible matches belong in unknowns[], never in findings[] or evidence[]. - Evidence[] entries must correspond to pages/files you actually retrieved this run. A URL you did not open is not evidence. Then write the steel-man section per Hard Rule 11. Grade rules: - green = deployed bytecode verified on the explorer (proxy AND implementation if proxied; "Similar Match" on a standard proxy pattern is fine per V1), a public source repo exists whose contents correspond to the explorer-visible source, AND ≥1 audit from a recognized firm covering the currently-deployed contracts (≤6 months of drift OR drift was re-audited). A missing local compile-match is not a downgrade — record it in unknowns[] and still grade green if the other conditions hold. - orange = verified but with visible drift from the public repo, OR audit scope is stale relative to deployment, OR only minor / unknown-firm audits exist, OR only some of the main contracts are verified, OR proxy verified but implementation only partially verified. - red = unverified bytecode (or verified proxy with unverified implementation), OR no audit in protocol.audit_links, OR no public repo. - unknown = reserved for when the protocol's verifiability posture genuinely cannot be assessed (e.g., explorer and repo both inaccessible for this protocol). Do NOT use unknown merely because you, the analyst, could not run a particular check such as a bytecode diff — that goes in unknowns[] while the grade is still assigned from the evidence you do have. --- ### JSON output contract Return exactly one JSON object inside a single ```json fenced block. Shape: { "schema_version": 4, "slug": "<copy protocol.slug from the per-protocol context>", "slice": "verifiability", "snapshot_generated_at": "<copy snapshot.generated_at from the per-protocol context>", "prompt_version": 29, "analysis_date": "<copy analysis_date from the per-protocol context>", "model": "<exact model name, e.g. claude-opus-4-7 / gpt-5-thinking / gemini-3-pro>", "chat_url": null, "grading_basis": "on-chain | off-chain-only | mixed (optional; omit for on-chain)", "grade": "green | orange | red | unknown", "headline": "<one-line summary>", "short_headline": "<≤6 words, ≤80 chars; omit if you can't fit>", "rationale": { "findings": [{ "code": "E1", "text": "<concrete, source-cited finding>" }], "steelman": { "red": "<one sentence>", "orange": "<one sentence>", "green": "<one sentence>" }, "verdict": "Choosing <grade> because <reason ranking one steel-man above the others, citing specific evidence>." }, "evidence": [{ "url": "https://...", "shows": "<what this URL demonstrates>", "chain": "...", "address": "0x...", "commit": "<hex SHA>", "fetched_at": "2026-04-23T11:20:00Z" }], "unknowns": ["E3: <thing you looked for but couldn't determine>"], "protocol_metadata": { "github": ["https://github.com/org/repo"], "docs_url": "https://docs.protocol.xyz", "audits": [{ "firm": "Trail of Bits", "url": "https://...report.pdf", "date": "2025-09" }], "governance_forum": "https://forum.protocol.xyz", "voting_token": { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "symbol": "XYZ" }, "bug_bounty_url": "https://immunefi.com/bounty/protocol", "security_contact": "security@protocol.xyz", "deployed_contracts_doc": "https://docs.protocol.xyz/deployments", "admin_addresses": [{ "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "role": "DAO treasury multisig", "actor_class": "multisig" }], "upgradeability": "immutable | upgradeable | mixed | unknown", "about": "<2–4 sentences>" } } Rules recap: - grade="unknown" ⇒ steelman=null; unknowns[] ≥1; evidence[] may be empty. - grade!="unknown" ⇒ steelman={red,orange,green}; evidence[] ≥1; verdict starts with "Choosing ". - findings[].code matches the slice's checklist prefix verbatim (E1, C2-emergency, V4a, …); unknowns[] entries are checklist-coded ("E3: …"). - Wrap in a single ```json fence; nothing before or after. URLs are bare strings, never markdown links. - On-chain Governor with 4-day uncontested fast path can upgrade fund-holding Pool (T1); 2-of-6 emergency Safe holds pause role
Verdict
Choosing orange because the uncontested fast path is 4 days (3-day voting period + 1-day timelock, both read on-chain), which is below the 7-day bar required for green when T1 is reachable. The Governor's upgradeContract reaches a tier-1 outcome (replacing the Capital Pool implementation that holds member funds), and the optimistic-governance default-accept model means proposals pass unless 15% of NXM supply actively rejects. The 2-of-6 emergency-pause Safe fails Security Council criteria. The orange steel-man best fits because the 4-day delay does provide meaningful advance notice but is short of the 7-day standard and combined with low pause-multisig threshold.
Steelman argument
Steelman argument T1 is reachable but only through a multi-stage public process: 3-day voting period plus 1-day timelock gives users 4 days of advance notice to react, the pause role is split between proposer and confirmer roles (no unilateral pause), and the AB has 5 publicly-named members serving at member discretion.Evidence (7)
- C1
- Pinned 'proxy_admin' 0x01BFd826...0cD07e is the NXMaster proxy; its proxyOwner is 0x4A5C68...87900 and its registry() points to the new Registry at 0xcafea2c5...236b9e, which holds proxyOwner=0xcafea606...82Ca32 (Governor). The Governor is the upgrade authority for the active v3 architecture; the legacy NXMaster has an emergencyAdmin field set to 0x422D71...2995D.
- C2
- All major contracts use OwnedUpgradeabilityProxy with upgradeTo()/transferProxyOwnership() — upgradeable architecture. Registry's implementation is 0xcafeaC64...500E and Governor's implementation is 0xcafea466...A830; both contracts expose upgradeContract/upgradeTo paths controlled by the Governor.
- C3
- Uncontested fast path on Governor (0xcafea606...82Ca32): propose → VOTING_PERIOD = 259200s (3 days) → TIMELOCK_PERIOD = 86400s (1 day) → execute. Total uncontested delay = 4 days = 345600 seconds. Both constants read on-chain at block 25083310.
- C4
- Emergency Admin is a 2-of-6 Gnosis Safe v1.3.0 at 0x422D71fb...2995D (threshold=2, 6 owners read at block 25083311). Per docs, its only role is to enact emergency pause on RAMM or the entire protocol. 2-of-6 = 33% threshold fails Security Council criteria (≥51% threshold + ≥7 signers + ≥50% non-insider).
- C5
- Governor on-chain constants (block 25083310): PROPOSAL_THRESHOLD=100 NXM (100e18), MEMBER_VOTE_QUORUM_PERCENTAGE=15 (rejection quorum — optimistic governance, AB proposes default-accept), VOTE_WEIGHT_CAP_PERCENTAGE=5, ADVISORY_BOARD_SEATS=5, ADVISORY_BOARD_THRESHOLD=3. Optimistic model: AB-proposed default outcomes pass unless members meet 15% rejection quorum.
- C6
- Yes — emergency-pause role is distinct from upgrade authority. The Registry has separate proposePauseConfig/confirmPauseConfig functions with a ProposerCannotConfirmPause error, requiring two distinct actors (emergencyAdmin proposes, separate confirmer required). isEmergencyAdmin role is grantable by Governor via setEmergencyAdmin.
- C7
- Highest tier on the fast path is T1 (FUND-CRITICAL): the Governor can call upgradeContract on the Registry to replace the Capital Pool implementation that holds ~$61M of user funds. Per rubric, T1 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay >0 but <7 days = orange. Optimistic governance (default-accept) means proposals pass without active member opposition.
Why is this consensus tentative?- weak consensus margin
A fresh independent run can strengthen (or overturn) the verdict.
Run your own prompt Submit run ↗### Per-protocol context (ground truth for this run) - protocol.slug: nexus-mutual - protocol.name: Nexus Mutual - protocol.chains: Ethereum - protocol.category: Insurance - protocol.website: https://nexusmutual.io/ - protocol.github: NexusMutual - protocol.audit_links: https://nexusmutual.gitbook.io/docs/helpful-resources/audits-and-security - snapshot.generated_at: 2026-06-01T11:27:13.878Z - analysis_date: 2026-06-08 - prompt_version: 29 - address_book: [ { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e", "role": "NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900", "role": "TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e", "role": "Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e", "role": "Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656", "role": "KYC auth address returned by Registry" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32", "role": "Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D", "role": "Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9", "role": "DAO treasury Safe" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1", "role": "DAO teams 3/5 multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b", "role": "token" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884", "role": "pool" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926", "role": "multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f", "role": "proxy" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f", "role": "other" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139", "role": "other" } ] ### Pre-built read-API surfacer URLs (verbatim — fetchable as-is) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e (NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900 (TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e (Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e (Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656 (KYC auth address returned by Registry) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32 (Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D (Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9 (DAO treasury Safe) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1 (DAO teams 3/5 multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b (token) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884 (pool) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926 (multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f (proxy) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f (other) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139 (other) --- You are contributing a single-slice assessment to defipunkd, a git-native transparency registry for DeFi protocols. Your JSON output will be attached to a pull request and compared against ≥2 other independent runs. Disagreements are surfaced publicly — be conservative, cite everything, return grade="unknown" when a signal cannot be determined, and resist stopping at the first damning finding. ### Per-protocol context (do not infer; these are ground truth) A "Per-protocol context" block (provided alongside this prompt — either as a user message in API mode, or as a section appended below in copy-paste mode) lists the pinned inputs (protocol.slug, name, chains, category, website, github, audit_links, snapshot.generated_at, analysis_date, prompt_version, address_book) and a list of pre-built read-API surfacer URLs for each pinned address. Treat those values as authoritative for this run. The pre-built surfacer URLs are accepted by your fetch tool's allowlist because they appear verbatim in the per-protocol context. Each surfacer page pre-executes the contract's zero-arg view methods and renders any address-typed return values as /address/{chainId}/0x… links inline — those rendered links are also fetchable post-fetch. /api/contract/read and /api/safe/owners JSON responses include a top-level `crawl.surfacers` array of /address/{chainId}/0x… URLs for every address-typed value in the result, so you can crawl directly from API responses. For addresses surfaced from non-defipunkd sources (block-explorer pages, GitHub, audit PDFs), the allowlist will reject your generated surfacer URL — record the address in protocol_metadata.admin_addresses and add a checklist-coded entry to unknowns[]; the next run will inherit it as a fetchable surfacer. ### Step 0 — Capability probe (do this before producing JSON) Identify what fetch tool your environment exposes — `web_fetch`, `browser`, `url_context`, `google_search` (with underscore, colon, or space), Bing grounding, Perplexity, `web.run`, or anything similar. Search-grounding tools ARE valid fetch paths and you should use them; they are not forbidden. The distinction that matters is what the tool returned, not its name: a grounded response with the underlying page body is sufficient evidence; a bare 1–3-line preview snippet is not. Probe: attempt one fetch of `protocol.website` and one fetch of a pre-built surfacer URL above (or the protocol's primary block-explorer page if no surfacer is pinned). Record the tool you used, the URL, and what came back (response body, HTTP status, allowlist rejection text, or "tool not present: <name>"). If either probe succeeded, proceed. If both direct probes failed, **DO NOT STOP** — try search. Issue at least two broad search queries (protocol name + "Etherscan" / "official docs" / "GitHub" / "audit"; `site:` operators against etherscan.io / github.com / the docs domain). If a search query returns the underlying page body, that page URL is fetched evidence and goes in evidence[]. Set `grading_basis: "off-chain-only"` and continue with whatever you can extract. Empty `evidence[]` + `grade="unknown"` is only valid if BOTH direct probes AND ≥2 search queries returned nothing usable; in that case, log the attempted queries and observed-zero outcomes in unknowns[]. A submission claiming "blocked" without those receipts is treated as a non-submission (zero quorum weight). Search engines do not index raw JSON API endpoints — zero results for `defipunkd.com/api/contract/read` URLs is expected and is itself a recordable failure mode, not a system restriction. ### Anti-fabrication (the most important rule on this page) Memory is not evidence. Treat your training data, prior conversations, and general knowledge as suggestions for what to look up — never as citations. Every URL in evidence[] must have been fetched in this run via any tool exposed in your environment, OR pasted into this conversation by the user. Constructing a URL is fine, but every variable part (address, commit SHA, repo path, contract name, method, args, block number) must come from a fetched/pasted source in this run, and the URL must then have been successfully fetched before it appears in evidence[]. URLs constructed from remembered addresses, repo paths, contract names, or guessed API methods are fabrication. Before emitting JSON, run an evidence ledger check on every evidence[] entry: 1. The exact URL appears in your fetch transcript or in a user-pasted source body. 2. The fetched/pasted body contains the fact you're citing in evidence[].shows. 3. Every rationale.findings / protocol_metadata claim that depends on this evidence follows directly from that body, without recourse to memory. 4. Derived (rather than verbatim) claims are explicitly labelled as derived in evidence[].shows. 5. `fetched_at` is set ONLY when you actually fetched the URL in this run; if no timestamp is available, omit the field — never invent one. If any check fails, remove the evidence entry and demote dependent claims to unknowns[]. Set grade="unknown" if demotion empties the grading basis. Do not ask the user to paste anything; do not withhold JSON; do not improvise from memory. A plausible-sounding answer backed by unsupported evidence is WORSE than grade="unknown" — it pollutes the quorum. If the assessment requires leaning on remembered public facts ("Lido is governed by LDO token-weighted voting"), historical reports, common knowledge, or likely-architecture reasoning ("UUPS proxies typically have an admin role"), return grade="unknown" with specific unknowns[] entries. Optimize for reproducibility, not completeness — if a reviewer can't re-verify each claim from the evidence URLs alone, the claim does not belong in the JSON. Empty unknowns[] on a non-trivial protocol is a red flag, not a quality signal. When the address_book is null/empty, you do not yet know any deployed address. Discover candidates from fetched website / GitHub / audit / explorer-search pages — addresses you "remember" from training data are not eligible, even for famous tokens (USDC, WBTC, stETH, UNI). If no address can be discovered after a good-faith attempt, return grade="unknown" with checklist-coded unknowns[] entries; do not invent addresses to fill the gap. ### Hard rules 1. Source classes that count as evidence: a) Public block explorers (etherscan.io, basescan.org, arbiscan.io, optimistic.etherscan.io, polygonscan.com, bscscan.com, snowtrace.io, scrollscan.com, lineascan.build, blastscan.io, era.zksync.network) for pinned addresses or addresses you discover transitively from them. b) The linked GitHub repos, at a specific commit SHA recorded in evidence[].commit. c) The audit PDFs / reports linked above. d) DeFiLlama's pinned fields (for category / chain lists only — not for risk assessment). e) DeFiPunkd's read API at https://defipunkd.com/api/{contract,safe}/... — see "On-chain reading" below. 2. If a signal cannot be determined after checking these, set grade="unknown" with ≥1 entry in unknowns[] naming what you looked for. 3. Every factual claim in rationale must map to ≥1 evidence[] entry. 4. Output exactly one JSON object matching the contract at the end, wrapped in a single ```json fenced code block. This rule applies to your FINAL assistant message only — issue tool calls freely during the run; tool-call reasoning lives in your model's tool-use channel and is not subject to this rule. Nothing before or after the fence — no prose, no follow-up questions, no requests for the user to paste anything. If evidence is incomplete, the correct response is still JSON, with claims demoted to unknowns[] and grade="unknown". ### Format rules (validation will reject submissions that violate these) 5. evidence[].url must be a bare `https://...` string — NEVER markdown link syntax. WRONG: `"url": "[Etherscan](https://etherscan.io/...)"`. RIGHT: `"url": "https://etherscan.io/..."`. 6. evidence[].commit, when present, must match `^[0-9a-f]{7,40}$` (lowercase hex, 7–40 chars). NEVER branch names or tags. Omit if you cannot pin a SHA. 7. evidence[].fetched_at, when present, must be ISO-8601 UTC (e.g. `2026-04-23T11:20:00Z`). Set whenever you actually fetched in this run. 8. evidence[].address, when present, must be `^0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$` (mixed case OK; checksum not validated). 9. Checklist codes (used in findings[].code and as unknowns[] prefixes) match `^[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,16}$` — start with an uppercase letter, then digits / letters / hyphens. Examples: `E1`, `A3b`, `C2-emergency`, `V4-auditor`. No parens, spaces, dots, slashes, underscores. Use slice-defined codes verbatim. unknowns[] entries must be prefixed with the relevant code + colon (e.g. `"A3b: frontend fetch failed"`). 10. chat_url: ALWAYS null. Default share links (claude.ai/chat, chatgpt.com, gemini.google.com) require viewer login and are not publicly readable. The user enables "Share publicly" after you respond and pastes the public URL into the JSON before opening the PR. ### Thoroughness rules 11. Each per-slice body contains a "MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST". Every item must EITHER produce an evidence[] entry OR a specific unknowns[] entry naming it by code. Silent skips are rejected as incomplete. 12. Before assigning a grade other than "unknown", rationale.steelman must contain a one-sentence strongest argument for each of red / orange / green, and rationale.verdict must state which fits the evidence and why. If the steel-man for the chosen grade is weaker than for an adjacent grade, you have probably picked the wrong grade. When grade="unknown", set steelman to null and use verdict to summarize what blocked the assessment. 13. Distinguish actor classes (EOA, 2-of-3 multisig, 4-of-7+ multisig with identified signers, emergency-scoped time-capped multisig, on-chain governance vote with timelock) and function classes (claim-of-finalized vs new-request-placement, deposit vs borrow, mint vs redeem) — say which actor holds which power, on what time bound. "An admin can pause" is insufficient. 14. For on-chain slices (control, ability-to-exit, autonomy, verifiability), evidence[] must include ≥1 on-chain URL: a block-explorer URL OR a DeFiPunkd /api/{contract/read,safe/owners} URL (preferred — content-addressed when block-pinned). /api/contract/abi alone is metadata, not on-chain evidence. Source repos tell you what code SHOULD do; deployed contracts tell you what it ACTUALLY does. The "open-access" slice is exempt when claims are entirely about frontend / off-chain operator behavior. CARVE-OUT: `grading_basis="off-chain-only"` is exempt from this rule but is downweighted by the quorum bot regardless of grade. 15. Prompt-meta-check: if your verdict quotes prompt language as evidence ("the protocol meets the 'documented fallback' condition"), re-do the verdict — the prompt describes the rubric, not the protocol. Evidence cites what THIS protocol does, not what the rubric says protocols of type X do. 16. `grading_basis` is one of `"on-chain"` (default; omit field), `"off-chain-only"`, or `"mixed"`. Describes what was READ this run, not the verdict — `grade="unknown"` is allowed under any basis. Set `"off-chain-only"` ONLY when BOTH (a) ≥1 successful fetch of a docs / forum / audit / GitHub URL appears in evidence[], AND (b) ≥1 failed on-chain fetch attempt for THIS run is recorded in unknowns[] with a `-offchain` suffix. Empty `evidence[]` with `"off-chain-only"` is a category error and is rejected by the validator. Set `"mixed"` when some checklist codes were on-chain and others fell back. ABI-only finds (you read the ABI but couldn't read live state) are valid as `grade="unknown"` with the ABI cited; do not infer a grade from ABI shape alone. ### On-chain reading via the DeFiPunkd API Don't encode calldata, decode return data, or guess at ABIs by hand. Three deterministic GET endpoints return JSON with blockNumber, blockHash, raw calldata, and rawReturnData — content-addressed when block-pinned (`&block=<n>`): ABI (auto-resolves proxies): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/abi?chainId=<id>&address=0x... View call (any view method on the merged ABI; flat scalar args): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=getOwners https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=balanceOf&args=0x... Safe (threshold + owners + version in one call): https://defipunkd.com/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x... Use the BARE method name in `&method=` (e.g. `&method=totalSupply`, NOT `&method=totalSupply()`). Browser tools normalize `(` to `%28` and reject the normalized URL; bare names dodge that. Pass arguments via `&args=` (comma-separated, declaration order). Append `&block=<n>` for content-addressed evidence. Supported chainIds: 1 (ethereum), 10 (optimism), 56 (bsc), 130 (unichain), 137 (polygon), 324 (zksync), 8453 (base), 42161 (arbitrum), 43114 (avalanche), 59144 (linea), 81457 (blast), 534352 (scroll), 11155111 (sepolia). Use this API for any factual claim about contract ABI shape, view-method return values (owner(), getOwners(), getThreshold(), totalSupply(), implementation(), paused(), MIN_DELAY(), …), and Safe membership. Do NOT invent ABIs or return values from training data. Note on noisy address_book: the pinned address_book is sourced from prior assessments. It may include token deployments, oracle feeds, peripheral contracts, or mis-classified entries. Skip surfacer URLs that don't fit your slice — fetch only those whose role hints suggest control / pause / upgrade authority. ### Protocol metadata refresh (populate `protocol_metadata` in the output) DeFiLlama's pinned inputs may be stale or wrong. As a side-effect of this assessment, populate `protocol_metadata` with anything you verify. Leave fields null / empty arrays if you did not verify them — do NOT echo pinned inputs through; null means "not re-verified this run". - `github`: array of canonical source-code repo URLs. - `docs_url`: canonical developer / protocol documentation site. - `audits`: array of `{ firm, url, date }` (date as YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD). - `governance_forum`: primary discussion forum URL (Discourse, Commonwealth, etc.). - `voting_token`: `{ chain, address, symbol }` or null. Omit if not token-governed. - `bug_bounty_url`: public bug bounty page (Immunefi, HackerOne, self-hosted). - `security_contact`: private-disclosure channel — security@ email or SECURITY.md URL. Distinct from public bug bounty. - `deployed_contracts_doc`: docs page that lists deployed addresses per chain. Don't enumerate; just link. - `admin_addresses`: array of `{ chain, address, role, actor_class }` for multisig / timelock / owner / proxy-admin addresses. `actor_class` ∈ `"eoa" | "multisig" | "timelock" | "governance" | "unknown"`. These are the anchors for future runs' address_book. - `upgradeability`: `"immutable" | "upgradeable" | "mixed" | "unknown"`. "mixed" = some core contracts immutable, others behind proxies. - `about`: 2–4 sentence plain-English description. Name the user action (stake, borrow, swap, bridge, mint, redeem), the asset / market, and the distinctive mechanism (liquid staking receipt, isolated lending pools, constant-product AMM, intents auction, etc.). Do not restate category / chains / TVL. Every non-null field in `protocol_metadata` must be backed by ≥1 entry in evidence[]. --- ### Slice: CONTROL Evaluate who can change the protocol's rules, how fast, and how broadly. (Step 0 capability probe and the off-chain-only fallback live in the preamble — those rules apply here.) ### MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every item below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]) - **C1.** For each address you assess: who is the contract owner / admin / pendingAdmin / governor — read these via the block explorer's "Read Contract" tab OR `https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=owner` (BARE method names: `&method=owner`, `&method=admin`, `&method=pendingOwner`, `&method=governor`). For Safes use `/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x...`. When a protocol has multiple major versions deployed (v2/v3/v4), perform C1 reads on the NEWEST deployment separately — newer deployments often have weaker control surfaces than the legacy core. - **C2.** Upgrade mechanism: transparent proxy / UUPS / Beacon / Diamond / immutable. Identify the proxy admin address. Check upgradeability of GOVERNANCE contracts too — a Governor / Aragon Voting / OZ Governor is often itself a proxy whose admin is the Timelock. Asymmetry: when fund-holding cores are immutable AND governance has no admin path that reaches them, an upgradable Governor/Timelock is T3-only and must NOT drag the verdict below green on that basis alone (see grade rules and the "immutable cores" caveat). Only call upgradability "mixed" if you can name a concrete function on the upgradable surface that reaches T1 or T2 on user funds. - **C3.** EXECUTION PATH (enumerate every stage, in order, with delays in seconds). The operative path is usually a chain (voting → scheduler → timelock → executor; or governor → queue → execute; or Aragon Voting → DualGovernance → EmergencyProtectedTimelock → AdminExecutor). For each stage, record (a) the contract address, (b) the delay constant name + value in seconds, (c) the URL you read it from (block-explorer Read Contract OR `/api/contract/read?...&method=MIN_DELAY&block=<n>`). Do NOT stop at the first timelock-shaped contract — if its admin is itself called by another contract, keep walking. The grading delay is the SUM OF DELAYS ON THE UNCONTESTED FAST PATH (shortest time a proposal with no opposition can go from submission to executable). Dynamic / contested extensions (veto signaling, rage quit, escrow delay) are modifiers, not the basis — note them separately. - **C4.** Enumerate EVERY multisig with reachable control — main proxy admin, emergency activation, emergency execution, reseal / pause, gate-seal committees, tiebreaker, per-module admins. For each Safe, fetch threshold + owners + version via `/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x...` (response includes raw eth_call data, so the URL is citable evidence). Enumerate ops/council/incentives multisigs even when off the upgrade path — record their scope so a reader can see they are NOT on the upgrade path. For each: (a) address, (b) threshold / total signers, (c) signer identities classified as insider (team, paid auditors under ongoing engagement, mandated service providers) vs non-insider (independent community members, unaffiliated researchers), (d) the specific power held (upgrade, pause, parameter, etc.). - **C5.** On-chain governance: Governor / GovernorBravo / OZ Governor / Aragon Voting with token-weighted voting? Record proposal threshold, voting period, quorum, and the timelock delay between queue and execute. Every numeric constant must come from a Read Contract call you can link to, or be in unknowns[] with the C-code. If votingDelay / votingPeriod are denominated in BLOCKS, convert to seconds at the chain's CURRENT block time (Ethereum mainnet ≈ 12s post-Merge, not the 15s in older Compound/Bravo deployments) — cite both block count and converted seconds. - **C6.** EMERGENCY POWERS: separate emergency-pause / guardian role with a different time cap or different actor than the main upgrade authority? Record it explicitly. - **C7.** POWER TIER (blast radius). For each privileged path in C3–C6, classify the WORST thing that path can do, choosing the highest applicable tier. Cite the specific function name and any on-chain bound — tier claims without a named function are unsupported. - **T1 — FUND-CRITICAL**: replace implementation of contracts holding user funds; change AMM math / accounting / collateral logic; mint unbacked debt or shares; pause withdrawals; drain user-fund treasury; change oracle to attacker-controlled source; replace upgrade admin with EOA. - **T2 — ECONOMICALLY MATERIAL**: change fee parameters within bounded ranges; redirect protocol fees; add/remove markets / collateral types; bounded inflation or token mint within hard-capped schedule; spend protocol-owned (non-user) treasury. - **T3 — GOVERNANCE-INTERNAL**: change voting rules, quorum, voting period, proposal threshold; upgrade the Governor itself; rotate Timelock admin; mint governance tokens within a capped annual schedule. - **T4 — OPERATIONAL**: incentives distribution, grants, ENS / frontend canonicalization, deployment coordination, periphery router deprecation. The grade is set by the HIGHEST tier reachable on the uncontested fast path, not the median. State the tier and the binding function in the verdict. ### Read Contract discipline (applies to C3, C4, C5) Every numeric constant cited (timelock delays, voting periods, multisig thresholds, quorum percentages) must come from EITHER (a) a block-explorer Read Contract URL, OR (b) a DeFiPunkd `/api/contract/read` or `/api/safe/owners` URL (preferred with `&block=<n>` for content-addressed evidence), OR (c) an unknowns[] entry with the C-code. Docs / blog posts are corroboration only — they cannot be the sole citation for a value that is also readable on-chain. ### Off-chain-only substitute hierarchy (when grading_basis="off-chain-only" — see preamble Rule 16) When on-chain reads were genuinely unreachable this run, eligible off-chain substitutes in priority order: 1. Linked audit PDFs (admin roles, multisig members, timelock delays usually enumerated). 2. Governance forum posts that quote constants from a successful on-chain proposal (cite post URL + linked execution-tx URL). 3. Official protocol docs pages with named addresses and roles (must be on a domain owned by the protocol). 4. GitHub README / SECURITY.md / governance/*.md at a pinned commit SHA. Forbidden substitutes: third-party blog posts, X / Twitter threads, search-result snippets, model memory. Required degradation: any C-code citing a numeric constant from docs/forum/audit prose ONLY must also carry an `unknowns[]` entry with `-offchain` suffix noting "value not re-read on-chain in this run; corroboration only". ### Grade rules (apply the timelock bar conditional on the highest C7 tier reachable on the fast path) Security Council standard (used below): a multisig qualifies as "Security Council" only if ALL of: ≥7 signers, ≥51% threshold, ≥50% non-insider signers, every signer publicly announced. Failing any criterion = NOT a Security Council, regardless of signer reputation. - **green**: highest reachable tier is T3 or T4 regardless of timelock; OR T2 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay ≥7 days; OR T1 reachable only via immutable contracts (T1 is unreachable); OR T1 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay ≥7 days combined with a Security Council multisig; OR T1 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay ≥7 days through active on-chain governance with broad token distribution. - **orange**: T2 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay >0 but <7 days; OR T1 reachable with uncontested-fast-path delay >0 but <7 days; OR a multisig failing one or more Security Council criteria sits on a T1/T2 path; OR unclear upgrade authority on a T1/T2 path; OR governance with very short timelock or low quorum on a T1/T2 path. - **red**: T1 reachable with no timelock by a single EOA or 2-of-3 multisig; OR a T1 upgrade admin that is not a smart contract you can audit. - **unknown**: completed the checklist but still cannot determine the upgrade authority OR cannot classify the highest tier reachable on the main contracts. Tiering caveats: - "Bounded" must be enforced ON-CHAIN to count as T2. A function that sets fees with no upper-bound check is T1 — cite the bound check. - Recurring T2 economic extraction (e.g. fee redirect with no rate limit) approaches T1 over time. A single proposal that can permanently redirect all future revenue is T1. - T3 assumes the governance contract cannot itself authorize a T1/T2 action without going through the same timelock. If governance can self-upgrade to bypass the timelock, T3 collapses into T1. - Do not downgrade tier by hand-waving ("realistically governance would never…"). Tier on what the contract permits, not what feels likely. Notes: - **Dynamic / dual-governance timelocks** (Lido, Compound escrow veto): the rubric grades on the uncontested path because that is the path most upgrades take. A dynamic extension that fires only under stake-weighted opposition is a real protection — name it in the green steel-man, but it does not lift an orange fast path into green; state the tension in the verdict. - **Immutable cores with upgradable governance** (Uniswap-style): if fund-holding contracts are immutable and have no admin-reachable function moving / freezing / re-routing user funds, the highest reachable tier on the upgrade path is T3 — green regardless of timelock. Don't grade this orange just because the Governor is a proxy — that's a C2 fact, not a downgrade. Downgrade only applies if you can cite a concrete function on the upgradable surface that reaches T1 or T2 (privileged hook, upgradable factory controlling fund-routing, fee-switch redirecting protocol revenue without bound). - **The 7-day bar** reflects the exit-window standard — users need notice after a queued upgrade to withdraw if they disagree. The ability-to-exit slice grades the exit side; this slice grades the delay side; both must hold for users to actually benefit from the delay. --- ### JSON output contract Return exactly one JSON object inside a single ```json fenced block. Shape: { "schema_version": 4, "slug": "<copy protocol.slug from the per-protocol context>", "slice": "control", "snapshot_generated_at": "<copy snapshot.generated_at from the per-protocol context>", "prompt_version": 29, "analysis_date": "<copy analysis_date from the per-protocol context>", "model": "<exact model name, e.g. claude-opus-4-7 / gpt-5-thinking / gemini-3-pro>", "chat_url": null, "grading_basis": "on-chain | off-chain-only | mixed (optional; omit for on-chain)", "grade": "green | orange | red | unknown", "headline": "<one-line summary>", "short_headline": "<≤6 words, ≤80 chars; omit if you can't fit>", "rationale": { "findings": [{ "code": "E1", "text": "<concrete, source-cited finding>" }], "steelman": { "red": "<one sentence>", "orange": "<one sentence>", "green": "<one sentence>" }, "verdict": "Choosing <grade> because <reason ranking one steel-man above the others, citing specific evidence>." }, "evidence": [{ "url": "https://...", "shows": "<what this URL demonstrates>", "chain": "...", "address": "0x...", "commit": "<hex SHA>", "fetched_at": "2026-04-23T11:20:00Z" }], "unknowns": ["E3: <thing you looked for but couldn't determine>"], "protocol_metadata": { "github": ["https://github.com/org/repo"], "docs_url": "https://docs.protocol.xyz", "audits": [{ "firm": "Trail of Bits", "url": "https://...report.pdf", "date": "2025-09" }], "governance_forum": "https://forum.protocol.xyz", "voting_token": { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "symbol": "XYZ" }, "bug_bounty_url": "https://immunefi.com/bounty/protocol", "security_contact": "security@protocol.xyz", "deployed_contracts_doc": "https://docs.protocol.xyz/deployments", "admin_addresses": [{ "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "role": "DAO treasury multisig", "actor_class": "multisig" }], "upgradeability": "immutable | upgradeable | mixed | unknown", "about": "<2–4 sentences>" } } Rules recap: - grade="unknown" ⇒ steelman=null; unknowns[] ≥1; evidence[] may be empty. - grade!="unknown" ⇒ steelman={red,orange,green}; evidence[] ≥1; verdict starts with "Choosing ". - findings[].code matches the slice's checklist prefix verbatim (E1, C2-emergency, V4a, …); unknowns[] entries are checklist-coded ("E3: …"). - Wrap in a single ```json fence; nothing before or after. URLs are bare strings, never markdown links. - NXM redemption requires MCR > 100% and is pausable via 2-of-6 emergency Safe + governance; pause has no on-chain time cap
Verdict
Choosing orange because (a) the pause path can prevent NXM-to-ETH redemption with no documented on-chain time cap, (b) the redemption is structurally gated by MCR > 100% which is a contract-enforced condition that can prevent exit under stress, and (c) the pause requires governance-vote confirmation rather than unilateral multisig action (consistent with orange's 'pausable through governance vote, not unilateral admin'). It does not meet red because the pause is split between proposer and confirmer roles, the MCR gate is a mutual-insurance feature rather than admin discretion, and finalized stake withdrawals can be claimed by the staker permissionlessly after the on-chain 30-day lock. It does not meet green because there is no time cap on pause and the MCR-conditional redemption falls short of unconditional permissionless exit.
Steelman argument
Steelman argument Pause requires two distinct actors (ProposerCannotConfirmPause prevents the multisig from acting alone), the MCR>100% constraint is a structural mutual-insurance feature (not an admin discretion), NXM transfers within the whitelisted member set are not pause-gated, and the legacy 30-day unstake lock auto-expires without admin involvement.Evidence (7)
- E1
- User-facing exit functions: (a) Pool.sellNXMTokens to redeem NXM for ETH (via RAMM); (b) MemberRoles.switchMembership(address) to migrate membership; (c) MemberRoles.recoverETH; (d) legacy PooledStaking.withdraw / withdrawForUser / withdrawReward / requestUnstake (30-day UNSTAKE_LOCK_TIME read on-chain = 2592000s); (e) v2 staking pool withdraw functions accessed via the StakingNFT. NXM transfer/sell is mediated by NXMToken whose transfers are gated by whiteListed(address).
- E2
- Exit functions are gated by isMember() + pause checks. The Registry encodes a Paused(uint256 currentState, uint256 checks) error and isPaused(uint256 mask) view, and contracts implementing IRegistry-aware logic call isPaused with module-specific masks. NXMToken transfers require both sender and recipient to be in the whiteListed set (managed by the TokenController = 0x540738...0B8).
- E3
- Pause role is held by addresses for which isEmergencyAdmin(address) returns true (managed via setEmergencyAdmin onlyGovernor) plus the legacy emergencyAdmin field on NXMaster, currently set to the 2-of-6 Safe 0x422D71fb...2995D. PauseConfig is a uint48 bitmap with proposePauseConfig (proposer) and confirmPauseConfig (must be a different actor per ProposerCannotConfirmPause). At block 25083310 getPauseConfig=0, getSystemPause.config=0 (not paused). No on-chain MAX_PAUSE_DURATION constant was found in the Registry/NXMaster ABIs read this run.
- E4
- Per docs, AB and Emergency Pause Safe both have pause powers; the on-chain split is between emergencyAdmin role (Safe) proposing and the Advisory Board / Governor confirming (or vice-versa) — two-actor confirmation prevents unilateral pause. The fast emergency pause is therefore at multisig speed (2-of-6) but requires a separate confirmer.
- E5
- Structural exit constraint: NXM-to-ETH redemption is only available when MCR (Minimum Capital Requirement) ratio > 100%. Per docs: 'Members can redeem NXM for ETH directly from the Mutual, but only when the minimum capital requirement ratio (MCR%) is above 100%.' This is an autonomous, contract-level exit gate that fires under adverse capitalization. Legacy PooledStaking exit has a fixed UNSTAKE_LOCK_TIME of 30 days (2592000s) read on-chain.
- E6
- No documented forced-exit / escape-hatch mechanism for adversarial-admin scenarios. The closest is MemberRoles.recoverETH (purpose unclear, governance-restricted) and the 30-day unstake lock that auto-expires. There is no permissionless emergency-exit independent of MCR/pause state.
- E7
- Exit functions are directly callable on the contract write tabs (sellNXMTokens, withdraw, requestUnstake) without the official frontend, but membership status is enforced on-chain via isMember(msg.sender) and NXM whitelisting, so a non-member EOA cannot acquire NXM in the first place. For an existing member, exit is frontend-independent.
Why is this consensus tentative?- weak consensus margin
A fresh independent run can strengthen (or overturn) the verdict.
Run your own prompt Submit run ↗### Per-protocol context (ground truth for this run) - protocol.slug: nexus-mutual - protocol.name: Nexus Mutual - protocol.chains: Ethereum - protocol.category: Insurance - protocol.website: https://nexusmutual.io/ - protocol.github: NexusMutual - protocol.audit_links: https://nexusmutual.gitbook.io/docs/helpful-resources/audits-and-security - snapshot.generated_at: 2026-06-01T11:27:13.878Z - analysis_date: 2026-06-08 - prompt_version: 29 - address_book: [ { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e", "role": "NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900", "role": "TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e", "role": "Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e", "role": "Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656", "role": "KYC auth address returned by Registry" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32", "role": "Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D", "role": "Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9", "role": "DAO treasury Safe" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1", "role": "DAO teams 3/5 multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b", "role": "token" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884", "role": "pool" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926", "role": "multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f", "role": "proxy" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f", "role": "other" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139", "role": "other" } ] ### Pre-built read-API surfacer URLs (verbatim — fetchable as-is) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e (NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900 (TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e (Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e (Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656 (KYC auth address returned by Registry) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32 (Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D (Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9 (DAO treasury Safe) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1 (DAO teams 3/5 multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b (token) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884 (pool) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926 (multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f (proxy) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f (other) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139 (other) --- You are contributing a single-slice assessment to defipunkd, a git-native transparency registry for DeFi protocols. Your JSON output will be attached to a pull request and compared against ≥2 other independent runs. Disagreements are surfaced publicly — be conservative, cite everything, return grade="unknown" when a signal cannot be determined, and resist stopping at the first damning finding. ### Per-protocol context (do not infer; these are ground truth) A "Per-protocol context" block (provided alongside this prompt — either as a user message in API mode, or as a section appended below in copy-paste mode) lists the pinned inputs (protocol.slug, name, chains, category, website, github, audit_links, snapshot.generated_at, analysis_date, prompt_version, address_book) and a list of pre-built read-API surfacer URLs for each pinned address. Treat those values as authoritative for this run. The pre-built surfacer URLs are accepted by your fetch tool's allowlist because they appear verbatim in the per-protocol context. Each surfacer page pre-executes the contract's zero-arg view methods and renders any address-typed return values as /address/{chainId}/0x… links inline — those rendered links are also fetchable post-fetch. /api/contract/read and /api/safe/owners JSON responses include a top-level `crawl.surfacers` array of /address/{chainId}/0x… URLs for every address-typed value in the result, so you can crawl directly from API responses. For addresses surfaced from non-defipunkd sources (block-explorer pages, GitHub, audit PDFs), the allowlist will reject your generated surfacer URL — record the address in protocol_metadata.admin_addresses and add a checklist-coded entry to unknowns[]; the next run will inherit it as a fetchable surfacer. ### Step 0 — Capability probe (do this before producing JSON) Identify what fetch tool your environment exposes — `web_fetch`, `browser`, `url_context`, `google_search` (with underscore, colon, or space), Bing grounding, Perplexity, `web.run`, or anything similar. Search-grounding tools ARE valid fetch paths and you should use them; they are not forbidden. The distinction that matters is what the tool returned, not its name: a grounded response with the underlying page body is sufficient evidence; a bare 1–3-line preview snippet is not. Probe: attempt one fetch of `protocol.website` and one fetch of a pre-built surfacer URL above (or the protocol's primary block-explorer page if no surfacer is pinned). Record the tool you used, the URL, and what came back (response body, HTTP status, allowlist rejection text, or "tool not present: <name>"). If either probe succeeded, proceed. If both direct probes failed, **DO NOT STOP** — try search. Issue at least two broad search queries (protocol name + "Etherscan" / "official docs" / "GitHub" / "audit"; `site:` operators against etherscan.io / github.com / the docs domain). If a search query returns the underlying page body, that page URL is fetched evidence and goes in evidence[]. Set `grading_basis: "off-chain-only"` and continue with whatever you can extract. Empty `evidence[]` + `grade="unknown"` is only valid if BOTH direct probes AND ≥2 search queries returned nothing usable; in that case, log the attempted queries and observed-zero outcomes in unknowns[]. A submission claiming "blocked" without those receipts is treated as a non-submission (zero quorum weight). Search engines do not index raw JSON API endpoints — zero results for `defipunkd.com/api/contract/read` URLs is expected and is itself a recordable failure mode, not a system restriction. ### Anti-fabrication (the most important rule on this page) Memory is not evidence. Treat your training data, prior conversations, and general knowledge as suggestions for what to look up — never as citations. Every URL in evidence[] must have been fetched in this run via any tool exposed in your environment, OR pasted into this conversation by the user. Constructing a URL is fine, but every variable part (address, commit SHA, repo path, contract name, method, args, block number) must come from a fetched/pasted source in this run, and the URL must then have been successfully fetched before it appears in evidence[]. URLs constructed from remembered addresses, repo paths, contract names, or guessed API methods are fabrication. Before emitting JSON, run an evidence ledger check on every evidence[] entry: 1. The exact URL appears in your fetch transcript or in a user-pasted source body. 2. The fetched/pasted body contains the fact you're citing in evidence[].shows. 3. Every rationale.findings / protocol_metadata claim that depends on this evidence follows directly from that body, without recourse to memory. 4. Derived (rather than verbatim) claims are explicitly labelled as derived in evidence[].shows. 5. `fetched_at` is set ONLY when you actually fetched the URL in this run; if no timestamp is available, omit the field — never invent one. If any check fails, remove the evidence entry and demote dependent claims to unknowns[]. Set grade="unknown" if demotion empties the grading basis. Do not ask the user to paste anything; do not withhold JSON; do not improvise from memory. A plausible-sounding answer backed by unsupported evidence is WORSE than grade="unknown" — it pollutes the quorum. If the assessment requires leaning on remembered public facts ("Lido is governed by LDO token-weighted voting"), historical reports, common knowledge, or likely-architecture reasoning ("UUPS proxies typically have an admin role"), return grade="unknown" with specific unknowns[] entries. Optimize for reproducibility, not completeness — if a reviewer can't re-verify each claim from the evidence URLs alone, the claim does not belong in the JSON. Empty unknowns[] on a non-trivial protocol is a red flag, not a quality signal. When the address_book is null/empty, you do not yet know any deployed address. Discover candidates from fetched website / GitHub / audit / explorer-search pages — addresses you "remember" from training data are not eligible, even for famous tokens (USDC, WBTC, stETH, UNI). If no address can be discovered after a good-faith attempt, return grade="unknown" with checklist-coded unknowns[] entries; do not invent addresses to fill the gap. ### Hard rules 1. Source classes that count as evidence: a) Public block explorers (etherscan.io, basescan.org, arbiscan.io, optimistic.etherscan.io, polygonscan.com, bscscan.com, snowtrace.io, scrollscan.com, lineascan.build, blastscan.io, era.zksync.network) for pinned addresses or addresses you discover transitively from them. b) The linked GitHub repos, at a specific commit SHA recorded in evidence[].commit. c) The audit PDFs / reports linked above. d) DeFiLlama's pinned fields (for category / chain lists only — not for risk assessment). e) DeFiPunkd's read API at https://defipunkd.com/api/{contract,safe}/... — see "On-chain reading" below. 2. If a signal cannot be determined after checking these, set grade="unknown" with ≥1 entry in unknowns[] naming what you looked for. 3. Every factual claim in rationale must map to ≥1 evidence[] entry. 4. Output exactly one JSON object matching the contract at the end, wrapped in a single ```json fenced code block. This rule applies to your FINAL assistant message only — issue tool calls freely during the run; tool-call reasoning lives in your model's tool-use channel and is not subject to this rule. Nothing before or after the fence — no prose, no follow-up questions, no requests for the user to paste anything. If evidence is incomplete, the correct response is still JSON, with claims demoted to unknowns[] and grade="unknown". ### Format rules (validation will reject submissions that violate these) 5. evidence[].url must be a bare `https://...` string — NEVER markdown link syntax. WRONG: `"url": "[Etherscan](https://etherscan.io/...)"`. RIGHT: `"url": "https://etherscan.io/..."`. 6. evidence[].commit, when present, must match `^[0-9a-f]{7,40}$` (lowercase hex, 7–40 chars). NEVER branch names or tags. Omit if you cannot pin a SHA. 7. evidence[].fetched_at, when present, must be ISO-8601 UTC (e.g. `2026-04-23T11:20:00Z`). Set whenever you actually fetched in this run. 8. evidence[].address, when present, must be `^0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$` (mixed case OK; checksum not validated). 9. Checklist codes (used in findings[].code and as unknowns[] prefixes) match `^[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,16}$` — start with an uppercase letter, then digits / letters / hyphens. Examples: `E1`, `A3b`, `C2-emergency`, `V4-auditor`. No parens, spaces, dots, slashes, underscores. Use slice-defined codes verbatim. unknowns[] entries must be prefixed with the relevant code + colon (e.g. `"A3b: frontend fetch failed"`). 10. chat_url: ALWAYS null. Default share links (claude.ai/chat, chatgpt.com, gemini.google.com) require viewer login and are not publicly readable. The user enables "Share publicly" after you respond and pastes the public URL into the JSON before opening the PR. ### Thoroughness rules 11. Each per-slice body contains a "MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST". Every item must EITHER produce an evidence[] entry OR a specific unknowns[] entry naming it by code. Silent skips are rejected as incomplete. 12. Before assigning a grade other than "unknown", rationale.steelman must contain a one-sentence strongest argument for each of red / orange / green, and rationale.verdict must state which fits the evidence and why. If the steel-man for the chosen grade is weaker than for an adjacent grade, you have probably picked the wrong grade. When grade="unknown", set steelman to null and use verdict to summarize what blocked the assessment. 13. Distinguish actor classes (EOA, 2-of-3 multisig, 4-of-7+ multisig with identified signers, emergency-scoped time-capped multisig, on-chain governance vote with timelock) and function classes (claim-of-finalized vs new-request-placement, deposit vs borrow, mint vs redeem) — say which actor holds which power, on what time bound. "An admin can pause" is insufficient. 14. For on-chain slices (control, ability-to-exit, autonomy, verifiability), evidence[] must include ≥1 on-chain URL: a block-explorer URL OR a DeFiPunkd /api/{contract/read,safe/owners} URL (preferred — content-addressed when block-pinned). /api/contract/abi alone is metadata, not on-chain evidence. Source repos tell you what code SHOULD do; deployed contracts tell you what it ACTUALLY does. The "open-access" slice is exempt when claims are entirely about frontend / off-chain operator behavior. CARVE-OUT: `grading_basis="off-chain-only"` is exempt from this rule but is downweighted by the quorum bot regardless of grade. 15. Prompt-meta-check: if your verdict quotes prompt language as evidence ("the protocol meets the 'documented fallback' condition"), re-do the verdict — the prompt describes the rubric, not the protocol. Evidence cites what THIS protocol does, not what the rubric says protocols of type X do. 16. `grading_basis` is one of `"on-chain"` (default; omit field), `"off-chain-only"`, or `"mixed"`. Describes what was READ this run, not the verdict — `grade="unknown"` is allowed under any basis. Set `"off-chain-only"` ONLY when BOTH (a) ≥1 successful fetch of a docs / forum / audit / GitHub URL appears in evidence[], AND (b) ≥1 failed on-chain fetch attempt for THIS run is recorded in unknowns[] with a `-offchain` suffix. Empty `evidence[]` with `"off-chain-only"` is a category error and is rejected by the validator. Set `"mixed"` when some checklist codes were on-chain and others fell back. ABI-only finds (you read the ABI but couldn't read live state) are valid as `grade="unknown"` with the ABI cited; do not infer a grade from ABI shape alone. ### On-chain reading via the DeFiPunkd API Don't encode calldata, decode return data, or guess at ABIs by hand. Three deterministic GET endpoints return JSON with blockNumber, blockHash, raw calldata, and rawReturnData — content-addressed when block-pinned (`&block=<n>`): ABI (auto-resolves proxies): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/abi?chainId=<id>&address=0x... View call (any view method on the merged ABI; flat scalar args): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=getOwners https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=balanceOf&args=0x... Safe (threshold + owners + version in one call): https://defipunkd.com/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x... Use the BARE method name in `&method=` (e.g. `&method=totalSupply`, NOT `&method=totalSupply()`). Browser tools normalize `(` to `%28` and reject the normalized URL; bare names dodge that. Pass arguments via `&args=` (comma-separated, declaration order). Append `&block=<n>` for content-addressed evidence. Supported chainIds: 1 (ethereum), 10 (optimism), 56 (bsc), 130 (unichain), 137 (polygon), 324 (zksync), 8453 (base), 42161 (arbitrum), 43114 (avalanche), 59144 (linea), 81457 (blast), 534352 (scroll), 11155111 (sepolia). Use this API for any factual claim about contract ABI shape, view-method return values (owner(), getOwners(), getThreshold(), totalSupply(), implementation(), paused(), MIN_DELAY(), …), and Safe membership. Do NOT invent ABIs or return values from training data. Note on noisy address_book: the pinned address_book is sourced from prior assessments. It may include token deployments, oracle feeds, peripheral contracts, or mis-classified entries. Skip surfacer URLs that don't fit your slice — fetch only those whose role hints suggest control / pause / upgrade authority. ### Protocol metadata refresh (populate `protocol_metadata` in the output) DeFiLlama's pinned inputs may be stale or wrong. As a side-effect of this assessment, populate `protocol_metadata` with anything you verify. Leave fields null / empty arrays if you did not verify them — do NOT echo pinned inputs through; null means "not re-verified this run". - `github`: array of canonical source-code repo URLs. - `docs_url`: canonical developer / protocol documentation site. - `audits`: array of `{ firm, url, date }` (date as YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD). - `governance_forum`: primary discussion forum URL (Discourse, Commonwealth, etc.). - `voting_token`: `{ chain, address, symbol }` or null. Omit if not token-governed. - `bug_bounty_url`: public bug bounty page (Immunefi, HackerOne, self-hosted). - `security_contact`: private-disclosure channel — security@ email or SECURITY.md URL. Distinct from public bug bounty. - `deployed_contracts_doc`: docs page that lists deployed addresses per chain. Don't enumerate; just link. - `admin_addresses`: array of `{ chain, address, role, actor_class }` for multisig / timelock / owner / proxy-admin addresses. `actor_class` ∈ `"eoa" | "multisig" | "timelock" | "governance" | "unknown"`. These are the anchors for future runs' address_book. - `upgradeability`: `"immutable" | "upgradeable" | "mixed" | "unknown"`. "mixed" = some core contracts immutable, others behind proxies. - `about`: 2–4 sentence plain-English description. Name the user action (stake, borrow, swap, bridge, mint, redeem), the asset / market, and the distinctive mechanism (liquid staking receipt, isolated lending pools, constant-product AMM, intents auction, etc.). Do not restate category / chains / TVL. Every non-null field in `protocol_metadata` must be backed by ≥1 entry in evidence[]. --- ### Slice: ABILITY-TO-EXIT Evaluate whether users can withdraw their funds on their own terms, even under adversarial admin conditions. MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every item below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]): - E1. Enumerate every user-facing exit function in the main contracts: withdraw, redeem, burn, requestWithdrawal, claim, exit, etc. List them by name. Do NOT treat the contract as a monolith. - E2. For EACH exit function in E1: identify its access modifiers and any pause guards (e.g. _checkResumed, whenNotPaused, onlyRole). Functions that gate REQUEST PLACEMENT often differ from functions that CLAIM FINALIZED FUNDS — check both separately. - E3. For each pause guard: identify the role holder (which address holds PAUSE_ROLE / GUARDIAN / etc.) and the maximum pause duration. Specifically check whether PAUSE_INFINITELY (or equivalent uncapped pause) is callable, and which actor can call it (single multisig vs governance vote). For role-holder reads use https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=hasRole&args=0x...,0x... or &method=getRoleAdmin&args=0x.... For "is currently paused" checks use &method=paused or &method=isPaused&args=<resume-code>. Use the BARE method name (no parens). Cite the URL with &block=<n> in evidence[]. - E4. EMERGENCY vs GOVERNANCE pause distinction: many protocols have a fast-acting emergency pause capped at N days and a slow governance pause that can be indefinite. Record both paths separately if present, with their time caps and actor classes. - E5. Queued redemption: documented maximum queue duration, daily withdrawal caps, whether the queue itself is pausable. - E6. Forced-exit / escape-hatch / permissionless emergency-exit mechanism for adversarial-admin scenarios. - E7. Frontend dependency: confirm exit functions are directly callable on-chain (e.g. via Etherscan write tab or a generic wallet) without the project's frontend. Then write the steel-man section per Hard Rule 11. Common red-vs-orange tension on this slice: indefinite pause exists (suggests red) BUT the realistic emergency path is time-capped AND claims of already-finalized exits are not pause-gated (suggests orange). Resolve this by stating who can do what for how long, not by stopping at the worst-case sentence. Grade rules: - green = permissionless exit; pause is either absent, narrowly scoped to clearly-described emergencies with auto-expiry, or capped at ≤7 days; no frontend dependency for exit; claims of already-finalized exits are not pause-gated under any path. - orange = pausable with broad scope OR indefinite pause is reachable only through governance vote (not unilateral admin action), OR queued redemption with documented max > 7 days, OR claims-of-finalized are exempt but new-request placement can be paused indefinitely by governance. - red = exit requires admin signature, OR ANY actor (including governance) can pause CLAIMS of finalized exits indefinitely, OR there is no on-chain exit function at all (purely custodial), OR pause is held by a single EOA / 2-of-3 multisig with no time cap. - unknown = checklist incomplete after checking the sources above. --- ### JSON output contract Return exactly one JSON object inside a single ```json fenced block. Shape: { "schema_version": 4, "slug": "<copy protocol.slug from the per-protocol context>", "slice": "ability-to-exit", "snapshot_generated_at": "<copy snapshot.generated_at from the per-protocol context>", "prompt_version": 29, "analysis_date": "<copy analysis_date from the per-protocol context>", "model": "<exact model name, e.g. claude-opus-4-7 / gpt-5-thinking / gemini-3-pro>", "chat_url": null, "grading_basis": "on-chain | off-chain-only | mixed (optional; omit for on-chain)", "grade": "green | orange | red | unknown", "headline": "<one-line summary>", "short_headline": "<≤6 words, ≤80 chars; omit if you can't fit>", "rationale": { "findings": [{ "code": "E1", "text": "<concrete, source-cited finding>" }], "steelman": { "red": "<one sentence>", "orange": "<one sentence>", "green": "<one sentence>" }, "verdict": "Choosing <grade> because <reason ranking one steel-man above the others, citing specific evidence>." }, "evidence": [{ "url": "https://...", "shows": "<what this URL demonstrates>", "chain": "...", "address": "0x...", "commit": "<hex SHA>", "fetched_at": "2026-04-23T11:20:00Z" }], "unknowns": ["E3: <thing you looked for but couldn't determine>"], "protocol_metadata": { "github": ["https://github.com/org/repo"], "docs_url": "https://docs.protocol.xyz", "audits": [{ "firm": "Trail of Bits", "url": "https://...report.pdf", "date": "2025-09" }], "governance_forum": "https://forum.protocol.xyz", "voting_token": { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "symbol": "XYZ" }, "bug_bounty_url": "https://immunefi.com/bounty/protocol", "security_contact": "security@protocol.xyz", "deployed_contracts_doc": "https://docs.protocol.xyz/deployments", "admin_addresses": [{ "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "role": "DAO treasury multisig", "actor_class": "multisig" }], "upgradeability": "immutable | upgradeable | mixed | unknown", "about": "<2–4 sentences>" } } Rules recap: - grade="unknown" ⇒ steelman=null; unknowns[] ≥1; evidence[] may be empty. - grade!="unknown" ⇒ steelman={red,orange,green}; evidence[] ≥1; verdict starts with "Choosing ". - findings[].code matches the slice's checklist prefix verbatim (E1, C2-emergency, V4a, …); unknowns[] entries are checklist-coded ("E3: …"). - Wrap in a single ```json fence; nothing before or after. URLs are bare strings, never markdown links. - Capital Pool holds large LST/LRT positions (Lido stETH, rETH, Stakewise, EtherFi, Enzyme-Kiln); governance can add new external dependencies via 4-day timelock
Verdict
Choosing orange because the Capital Pool's documented exposure to multiple LST/LRT providers (Lido stETH at peak ~30,000 stETH plus rETH, weETH, Stakewise positions) is material — a major LST/LRT failure could materially change expected performance and trigger the MCR<100% exit gate, even though principal loss is bounded by diversification. Impacted TVS estimate: a worst-case single-LST failure (e.g., total stETH peg loss to 80%) would impair on the order of 10–30% of Capital Pool NAV (~$6M–$18M out of ~$61M reported on Etherscan), recoverable over time but materially affecting unclaimed yield and exit liquidity. Governance can introduce new dependencies via the same 4-day path used for control changes, so the dependency surface is mutable but not silently mutable. Module-level note: the legacy v1 pool (pinned 0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884) has balance 0 and is decommissioned, so its share of TVS is ~0%; all current TVS sits in the v3 Capital Pool, weighted overall = orange.
Steelman argument
Steelman argument External dependencies are diversified across at least four independent LST/LRT providers, each addition requires a public 4-day governance vote with members able to reject, the MCR gate is a recoverable mechanism (capital recovers, MCR returns above 100%, exits reopen) rather than a permanent loss event, and there is no admin-only fast path to introduce new dependencies.Evidence (9)
- A1
- Capital Pool (current address 0xcafea917...697cb per docs, ~$61.5M balance) holds and reads from multiple external positions per the governance-approved investment allocations: Lido stETH (peak ~30,000 stETH), Rocket Pool rETH (~13,358 rETH from NMPIP 197), Stakewise V3 via Chorus One (4,989 ETH allocation under NMPIP 228), EtherFi weETH (1,586 ETH), and Kiln via Enzyme vault (6,624 WETH). USD Price Feed Oracle support (Chainlink-style) was audited in November 2024 — the protocol uses external price feeds for cover pricing in USD-denominated covers.
- A2
- Off-chain reporter critical to admission (not asset accounting): kycAuthAddress = 0x176c2797...4656 signs Registry.join(member, signature). A KYC-authority compromise would let unauthorized addresses join but does not directly enable theft of existing user principal. Advisory Board (5 named members) participates in optimistic governance default-outcome setting and pause confirmation.
- A3
- No bridge / cross-chain dependency for the core mutual — Nexus Mutual is Ethereum-mainnet only. The protocol issues USD-denominated covers but settles claims in ETH/USDC/cbBTC on Ethereum; cross-chain risk is limited to whatever bridge-risk products are covered (which is a customer-facing risk, not an autonomy risk of THIS protocol).
- A4
- Nested-collateral chains present via LRT (EtherFi weETH = ETH staked → restaked via EigenLayer). Depth: ETH → Lido/Rocket Pool/Stakewise validator → (for weETH) → EigenLayer AVS slashing surface. A coordinated slashing or LRT depeg could impair the Capital Pool's ETH-denominated value. Per investments page, allocations span at least 4 distinct LST/LRT providers, giving some diversification.
- A5
- Not forked — Nexus Mutual is an original protocol launched 2019 (Solidified audit). Not flagged in DeFiLlama's forkedFrom.
- A6
- Fallback mechanisms: (i) DOCUMENTED but not separately verified on-chain this run — RAMM (Ratcheting AMM) provides bounded price discovery for NXM/ETH swaps with audited tokenomics (iosiro Oct 2023, Chaos Labs economic audit Oct 2023). (ii) DOCUMENTED — MCR > 100% gate prevents NXM-to-ETH redemption when capital is insufficient (this is a fallback against bank-run scenarios). (iii) DOCUMENTED — claims must pass member-staked claims-assessment before payout. Live on-chain enforcement of MCR gate could not be confirmed in this run.
- A7
- No sequencer / L2-liveness dependency beyond the Ethereum L1 substrate. Nexus Mutual deploys on Ethereum L1 only.
- A8
- Limited keeper liveness dependency: legacy PooledStaking has processPendingActions (permissionless, anyone can call to settle pending burns/rewards/unstakes) with hasPendingActions=true at block 25083308. Withdrawal claims do not depend on keepers running — stakers can call withdraw directly. Cover claim payouts are governance-mediated (claims assessment + AB), not keeper-mediated.
- A9
- Governance-mutable external dependency surface is broad: Registry.addContract / Registry.upgradeContract (onlyGovernor) can register new SwapOperator / StakingPool / oracle implementations that touch user funds. The investment-allocation process is members-voted through the standard 4-day path (3-day voting + 1-day timelock), so new LST/LRT/yield-source dependencies can be added — but only after the public timelocked vote. There is no faster admin-only path to swap an external dependency without governance. This means dependency-surface changes inherit the same 4-day delay graded under the control slice.
Why is this consensus tentative?- weak consensus margin
A fresh independent run can strengthen (or overturn) the verdict.
Run your own prompt Submit run ↗### Per-protocol context (ground truth for this run) - protocol.slug: nexus-mutual - protocol.name: Nexus Mutual - protocol.chains: Ethereum - protocol.category: Insurance - protocol.website: https://nexusmutual.io/ - protocol.github: NexusMutual - protocol.audit_links: https://nexusmutual.gitbook.io/docs/helpful-resources/audits-and-security - snapshot.generated_at: 2026-06-01T11:27:13.878Z - analysis_date: 2026-06-08 - prompt_version: 29 - address_book: [ { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e", "role": "NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900", "role": "TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e", "role": "Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e", "role": "Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656", "role": "KYC auth address returned by Registry" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32", "role": "Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D", "role": "Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9", "role": "DAO treasury Safe" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1", "role": "DAO teams 3/5 multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b", "role": "token" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884", "role": "pool" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926", "role": "multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f", "role": "proxy" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f", "role": "other" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139", "role": "other" } ] ### Pre-built read-API surfacer URLs (verbatim — fetchable as-is) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e (NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900 (TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e (Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e (Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656 (KYC auth address returned by Registry) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32 (Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D (Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9 (DAO treasury Safe) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1 (DAO teams 3/5 multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b (token) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884 (pool) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926 (multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f (proxy) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f (other) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139 (other) --- You are contributing a single-slice assessment to defipunkd, a git-native transparency registry for DeFi protocols. Your JSON output will be attached to a pull request and compared against ≥2 other independent runs. Disagreements are surfaced publicly — be conservative, cite everything, return grade="unknown" when a signal cannot be determined, and resist stopping at the first damning finding. ### Per-protocol context (do not infer; these are ground truth) A "Per-protocol context" block (provided alongside this prompt — either as a user message in API mode, or as a section appended below in copy-paste mode) lists the pinned inputs (protocol.slug, name, chains, category, website, github, audit_links, snapshot.generated_at, analysis_date, prompt_version, address_book) and a list of pre-built read-API surfacer URLs for each pinned address. Treat those values as authoritative for this run. The pre-built surfacer URLs are accepted by your fetch tool's allowlist because they appear verbatim in the per-protocol context. Each surfacer page pre-executes the contract's zero-arg view methods and renders any address-typed return values as /address/{chainId}/0x… links inline — those rendered links are also fetchable post-fetch. /api/contract/read and /api/safe/owners JSON responses include a top-level `crawl.surfacers` array of /address/{chainId}/0x… URLs for every address-typed value in the result, so you can crawl directly from API responses. For addresses surfaced from non-defipunkd sources (block-explorer pages, GitHub, audit PDFs), the allowlist will reject your generated surfacer URL — record the address in protocol_metadata.admin_addresses and add a checklist-coded entry to unknowns[]; the next run will inherit it as a fetchable surfacer. ### Step 0 — Capability probe (do this before producing JSON) Identify what fetch tool your environment exposes — `web_fetch`, `browser`, `url_context`, `google_search` (with underscore, colon, or space), Bing grounding, Perplexity, `web.run`, or anything similar. Search-grounding tools ARE valid fetch paths and you should use them; they are not forbidden. The distinction that matters is what the tool returned, not its name: a grounded response with the underlying page body is sufficient evidence; a bare 1–3-line preview snippet is not. Probe: attempt one fetch of `protocol.website` and one fetch of a pre-built surfacer URL above (or the protocol's primary block-explorer page if no surfacer is pinned). Record the tool you used, the URL, and what came back (response body, HTTP status, allowlist rejection text, or "tool not present: <name>"). If either probe succeeded, proceed. If both direct probes failed, **DO NOT STOP** — try search. Issue at least two broad search queries (protocol name + "Etherscan" / "official docs" / "GitHub" / "audit"; `site:` operators against etherscan.io / github.com / the docs domain). If a search query returns the underlying page body, that page URL is fetched evidence and goes in evidence[]. Set `grading_basis: "off-chain-only"` and continue with whatever you can extract. Empty `evidence[]` + `grade="unknown"` is only valid if BOTH direct probes AND ≥2 search queries returned nothing usable; in that case, log the attempted queries and observed-zero outcomes in unknowns[]. A submission claiming "blocked" without those receipts is treated as a non-submission (zero quorum weight). Search engines do not index raw JSON API endpoints — zero results for `defipunkd.com/api/contract/read` URLs is expected and is itself a recordable failure mode, not a system restriction. ### Anti-fabrication (the most important rule on this page) Memory is not evidence. Treat your training data, prior conversations, and general knowledge as suggestions for what to look up — never as citations. Every URL in evidence[] must have been fetched in this run via any tool exposed in your environment, OR pasted into this conversation by the user. Constructing a URL is fine, but every variable part (address, commit SHA, repo path, contract name, method, args, block number) must come from a fetched/pasted source in this run, and the URL must then have been successfully fetched before it appears in evidence[]. URLs constructed from remembered addresses, repo paths, contract names, or guessed API methods are fabrication. Before emitting JSON, run an evidence ledger check on every evidence[] entry: 1. The exact URL appears in your fetch transcript or in a user-pasted source body. 2. The fetched/pasted body contains the fact you're citing in evidence[].shows. 3. Every rationale.findings / protocol_metadata claim that depends on this evidence follows directly from that body, without recourse to memory. 4. Derived (rather than verbatim) claims are explicitly labelled as derived in evidence[].shows. 5. `fetched_at` is set ONLY when you actually fetched the URL in this run; if no timestamp is available, omit the field — never invent one. If any check fails, remove the evidence entry and demote dependent claims to unknowns[]. Set grade="unknown" if demotion empties the grading basis. Do not ask the user to paste anything; do not withhold JSON; do not improvise from memory. A plausible-sounding answer backed by unsupported evidence is WORSE than grade="unknown" — it pollutes the quorum. If the assessment requires leaning on remembered public facts ("Lido is governed by LDO token-weighted voting"), historical reports, common knowledge, or likely-architecture reasoning ("UUPS proxies typically have an admin role"), return grade="unknown" with specific unknowns[] entries. Optimize for reproducibility, not completeness — if a reviewer can't re-verify each claim from the evidence URLs alone, the claim does not belong in the JSON. Empty unknowns[] on a non-trivial protocol is a red flag, not a quality signal. When the address_book is null/empty, you do not yet know any deployed address. Discover candidates from fetched website / GitHub / audit / explorer-search pages — addresses you "remember" from training data are not eligible, even for famous tokens (USDC, WBTC, stETH, UNI). If no address can be discovered after a good-faith attempt, return grade="unknown" with checklist-coded unknowns[] entries; do not invent addresses to fill the gap. ### Hard rules 1. Source classes that count as evidence: a) Public block explorers (etherscan.io, basescan.org, arbiscan.io, optimistic.etherscan.io, polygonscan.com, bscscan.com, snowtrace.io, scrollscan.com, lineascan.build, blastscan.io, era.zksync.network) for pinned addresses or addresses you discover transitively from them. b) The linked GitHub repos, at a specific commit SHA recorded in evidence[].commit. c) The audit PDFs / reports linked above. d) DeFiLlama's pinned fields (for category / chain lists only — not for risk assessment). e) DeFiPunkd's read API at https://defipunkd.com/api/{contract,safe}/... — see "On-chain reading" below. 2. If a signal cannot be determined after checking these, set grade="unknown" with ≥1 entry in unknowns[] naming what you looked for. 3. Every factual claim in rationale must map to ≥1 evidence[] entry. 4. Output exactly one JSON object matching the contract at the end, wrapped in a single ```json fenced code block. This rule applies to your FINAL assistant message only — issue tool calls freely during the run; tool-call reasoning lives in your model's tool-use channel and is not subject to this rule. Nothing before or after the fence — no prose, no follow-up questions, no requests for the user to paste anything. If evidence is incomplete, the correct response is still JSON, with claims demoted to unknowns[] and grade="unknown". ### Format rules (validation will reject submissions that violate these) 5. evidence[].url must be a bare `https://...` string — NEVER markdown link syntax. WRONG: `"url": "[Etherscan](https://etherscan.io/...)"`. RIGHT: `"url": "https://etherscan.io/..."`. 6. evidence[].commit, when present, must match `^[0-9a-f]{7,40}$` (lowercase hex, 7–40 chars). NEVER branch names or tags. Omit if you cannot pin a SHA. 7. evidence[].fetched_at, when present, must be ISO-8601 UTC (e.g. `2026-04-23T11:20:00Z`). Set whenever you actually fetched in this run. 8. evidence[].address, when present, must be `^0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$` (mixed case OK; checksum not validated). 9. Checklist codes (used in findings[].code and as unknowns[] prefixes) match `^[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,16}$` — start with an uppercase letter, then digits / letters / hyphens. Examples: `E1`, `A3b`, `C2-emergency`, `V4-auditor`. No parens, spaces, dots, slashes, underscores. Use slice-defined codes verbatim. unknowns[] entries must be prefixed with the relevant code + colon (e.g. `"A3b: frontend fetch failed"`). 10. chat_url: ALWAYS null. Default share links (claude.ai/chat, chatgpt.com, gemini.google.com) require viewer login and are not publicly readable. The user enables "Share publicly" after you respond and pastes the public URL into the JSON before opening the PR. ### Thoroughness rules 11. Each per-slice body contains a "MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST". Every item must EITHER produce an evidence[] entry OR a specific unknowns[] entry naming it by code. Silent skips are rejected as incomplete. 12. Before assigning a grade other than "unknown", rationale.steelman must contain a one-sentence strongest argument for each of red / orange / green, and rationale.verdict must state which fits the evidence and why. If the steel-man for the chosen grade is weaker than for an adjacent grade, you have probably picked the wrong grade. When grade="unknown", set steelman to null and use verdict to summarize what blocked the assessment. 13. Distinguish actor classes (EOA, 2-of-3 multisig, 4-of-7+ multisig with identified signers, emergency-scoped time-capped multisig, on-chain governance vote with timelock) and function classes (claim-of-finalized vs new-request-placement, deposit vs borrow, mint vs redeem) — say which actor holds which power, on what time bound. "An admin can pause" is insufficient. 14. For on-chain slices (control, ability-to-exit, autonomy, verifiability), evidence[] must include ≥1 on-chain URL: a block-explorer URL OR a DeFiPunkd /api/{contract/read,safe/owners} URL (preferred — content-addressed when block-pinned). /api/contract/abi alone is metadata, not on-chain evidence. Source repos tell you what code SHOULD do; deployed contracts tell you what it ACTUALLY does. The "open-access" slice is exempt when claims are entirely about frontend / off-chain operator behavior. CARVE-OUT: `grading_basis="off-chain-only"` is exempt from this rule but is downweighted by the quorum bot regardless of grade. 15. Prompt-meta-check: if your verdict quotes prompt language as evidence ("the protocol meets the 'documented fallback' condition"), re-do the verdict — the prompt describes the rubric, not the protocol. Evidence cites what THIS protocol does, not what the rubric says protocols of type X do. 16. `grading_basis` is one of `"on-chain"` (default; omit field), `"off-chain-only"`, or `"mixed"`. Describes what was READ this run, not the verdict — `grade="unknown"` is allowed under any basis. Set `"off-chain-only"` ONLY when BOTH (a) ≥1 successful fetch of a docs / forum / audit / GitHub URL appears in evidence[], AND (b) ≥1 failed on-chain fetch attempt for THIS run is recorded in unknowns[] with a `-offchain` suffix. Empty `evidence[]` with `"off-chain-only"` is a category error and is rejected by the validator. Set `"mixed"` when some checklist codes were on-chain and others fell back. ABI-only finds (you read the ABI but couldn't read live state) are valid as `grade="unknown"` with the ABI cited; do not infer a grade from ABI shape alone. ### On-chain reading via the DeFiPunkd API Don't encode calldata, decode return data, or guess at ABIs by hand. Three deterministic GET endpoints return JSON with blockNumber, blockHash, raw calldata, and rawReturnData — content-addressed when block-pinned (`&block=<n>`): ABI (auto-resolves proxies): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/abi?chainId=<id>&address=0x... View call (any view method on the merged ABI; flat scalar args): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=getOwners https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=balanceOf&args=0x... Safe (threshold + owners + version in one call): https://defipunkd.com/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x... Use the BARE method name in `&method=` (e.g. `&method=totalSupply`, NOT `&method=totalSupply()`). Browser tools normalize `(` to `%28` and reject the normalized URL; bare names dodge that. Pass arguments via `&args=` (comma-separated, declaration order). Append `&block=<n>` for content-addressed evidence. Supported chainIds: 1 (ethereum), 10 (optimism), 56 (bsc), 130 (unichain), 137 (polygon), 324 (zksync), 8453 (base), 42161 (arbitrum), 43114 (avalanche), 59144 (linea), 81457 (blast), 534352 (scroll), 11155111 (sepolia). Use this API for any factual claim about contract ABI shape, view-method return values (owner(), getOwners(), getThreshold(), totalSupply(), implementation(), paused(), MIN_DELAY(), …), and Safe membership. Do NOT invent ABIs or return values from training data. Note on noisy address_book: the pinned address_book is sourced from prior assessments. It may include token deployments, oracle feeds, peripheral contracts, or mis-classified entries. Skip surfacer URLs that don't fit your slice — fetch only those whose role hints suggest control / pause / upgrade authority. ### Protocol metadata refresh (populate `protocol_metadata` in the output) DeFiLlama's pinned inputs may be stale or wrong. As a side-effect of this assessment, populate `protocol_metadata` with anything you verify. Leave fields null / empty arrays if you did not verify them — do NOT echo pinned inputs through; null means "not re-verified this run". - `github`: array of canonical source-code repo URLs. - `docs_url`: canonical developer / protocol documentation site. - `audits`: array of `{ firm, url, date }` (date as YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD). - `governance_forum`: primary discussion forum URL (Discourse, Commonwealth, etc.). - `voting_token`: `{ chain, address, symbol }` or null. Omit if not token-governed. - `bug_bounty_url`: public bug bounty page (Immunefi, HackerOne, self-hosted). - `security_contact`: private-disclosure channel — security@ email or SECURITY.md URL. Distinct from public bug bounty. - `deployed_contracts_doc`: docs page that lists deployed addresses per chain. Don't enumerate; just link. - `admin_addresses`: array of `{ chain, address, role, actor_class }` for multisig / timelock / owner / proxy-admin addresses. `actor_class` ∈ `"eoa" | "multisig" | "timelock" | "governance" | "unknown"`. These are the anchors for future runs' address_book. - `upgradeability`: `"immutable" | "upgradeable" | "mixed" | "unknown"`. "mixed" = some core contracts immutable, others behind proxies. - `about`: 2–4 sentence plain-English description. Name the user action (stake, borrow, swap, bridge, mint, redeem), the asset / market, and the distinctive mechanism (liquid staking receipt, isolated lending pools, constant-product AMM, intents auction, etc.). Do not restate category / chains / TVL. Every non-null field in `protocol_metadata` must be backed by ≥1 entry in evidence[]. --- ### Slice: AUTONOMY Evaluate this protocol's autonomy: can a failure of anything outside its own contracts cause theft or loss of user principal, loss of unclaimed yield, or materially change the protocol's expected performance? "Autonomy" is not "has zero external touchpoints" — it is "external failures are either survivable or recoverable without user loss". This slice adapts DefiScan v1's Autonomy dimension; dependencies are one of several criteria, not the whole frame. GUARDRAILS (read before grading): - Category alone (Liquid Staking, Bridge, RWA Lending, Restaking, …) does NOT force a grade. A category is a hint about where to look; the grade must come from the concrete A1–A9 findings below. - Base-chain consensus (Ethereum PoS, the chain's validator set, the canonical Deposit Contract at 0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa) is the SUBSTRATE, not a dependency, for any protocol deployed on that chain. Do not list "depends on Ethereum" as a finding. - Oracles or other integrations used by DOWNSTREAM protocols that happen to read this protocol's token (e.g. Chainlink stETH/USD consumed by Aave) are NOT this protocol's dependencies. Count only what THIS protocol's contracts call or trust on-chain. If a feed or contract appears in the protocol's docs only as reference material for third-party integrators, EXCLUDE IT ENTIRELY — do not log it as a finding even with a "peripheral" or "referenced only" caveat. - "Upgradeable admin can change things" belongs to the CONTROL slice; only count it here when the upgrade surface lets governance silently swap an external dependency (see A9). - Underlying-asset risk in opt-in, isolated markets is NOT autonomy-red on its own. When a protocol wraps third-party yield-bearing assets (LSTs, LRTs, ERC-4626 vaults, lending receipts, restaked tokens) into per-market silos that users explicitly choose, a failure of one underlying does NOT propagate to other markets and is risk the user opted into per-market. Record it under A4 with depth and propagation scope, but do not let it alone drive a red verdict — red requires an external dependency that cross-cuts the protocol or that the user did not opt into at deposit time. A failure mode that is "if the LRT you deposited is hacked, your principal in that LRT-backed market is impaired" is the underlying's autonomy story, not this protocol's; grade it on whether THIS protocol introduces additional dependencies on top. - Sub-module enumeration is mandatory before grading. If the protocol ships distinct product lines or modules (e.g., a v2 core AMM plus a newer perps/funding-rate module, a lending pool plus a separate vault layer, an L1 core plus a cross-chain extension), enumerate each in findings and grade against the WORST module weighted by its share of TVS or its blast radius. A green core does not rescue an orange/red sub-module; conversely, a small red sub-module with capped TVS may bound the overall grade to orange. Name each module by its on-chain factory or router address. If you do not know whether a module exists, that is an unknowns[] entry, not silence. EXPLICIT TVS WEIGHTING: in the verdict, state each module's approximate share of total protocol TVS (use "~X%" if exact figures unavailable; check DeFiLlama or block-explorer balances on the module's main contract) and how that share informs the weighted grade. Format: "Module A holds ~X% of TVS (grade: <g>); Module B holds ~Y% (grade: <g>); weighted overall = <grade> because <reason>." If a red sub-module holds <5% of total TVS and is capped, the overall grade may be orange; if it holds >25%, the overall grade is red. Do not let qualitative reasoning substitute for the percentages — write the numbers. MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every item below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]): - A1. External contract calls. Enumerate every external contract the core contracts call or read from (oracles, price feeds, AMM pools, lending pools, staking/deposit contracts, yield wrappers). For each, identify the address, the provider, and what user-facing function of this protocol would break or mis-price if that external contract paused, mis-reported, or behaved adversarially. Grep for "oracle", "aggregator", "getPrice", "latestAnswer", "chainlink", "pyth", "redstone" as a starting point. To verify an oracle is live and what it currently reports, hit https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=<oracle>&method=latestAnswer (or &method=latestRoundData, &method=getPrice, &method=description; use the BARE method name without parens) and cite the URL — the response includes blockNumber/blockHash and rawReturnData, which is stronger evidence than a docs page about which feed "should" be used. - A2. Off-chain actor committees reporting INTO the protocol. Oracle committees, guardian multisigs, DAO-selected validator sets acting as protocol reporters, exit-bus signers, fraud-proof challengers. For each, record committee size, quorum, who picks the members, and what mis-reporting could do (mint, burn, finalize withdrawal, freeze). Distinguish this from governance admins (control slice). NOTE ON STAKING PROTOCOLS: validator slashing and node-operator misbehavior are properties of the base-chain substrate, NOT external dependencies, when the operator set is diversified enough that a coordinated failure caps at <5% principal loss. Count validator/operator risk under A2 ONLY if the operator set is small, non-diversified, or lacks bonding / slashing-insurance / diversification mitigations. A curated set of 30+ independent operators with documented diversification falls under the mitigated path; a 3-operator LST does not. Do not cite the protocol's own risk disclosure as evidence that operator failure = principal loss unless you also check the diversification and bond mitigations. - A3. Bridge / cross-chain messaging dependencies. Only count bridges that carry material TVL or are required for a core user flow. For each, name the bridge operator (canonical L1↔L2, LayerZero, Wormhole, Axelar, custom multisig), the trust model (canonical, optimistic, light-client, guardian set), and what fraction of TVL or users ride on it. "wstETH exists on 15 chains" is not a finding unless material TVL sits there. Before listing any non-primary chain deployment as a dependency, verify it is still operational as of analysis_date — retired or sunset deployments (e.g., Lido-on-Terra, Lido-on-Solana) belong in unknowns[] or should be omitted, never cited as a current dependency. - A4. Nested collateral / restaking chains. For restaking / LRT / receipt-of-receipt designs: record the depth of the collateral chain, every actor with slashing or freezing power at each level, and whether a failure N levels deep propagates to user principal here. - A5. Fork lineage (silent check). If DeFiLlama's forkedFrom is non-empty, record it as one finding and move on. If empty, do NOT add a placeholder finding; it adds noise. - A6. Fallback mechanisms and circuit breakers. What catches an external failure? Sanity-check contracts on oracle reports, rebase bounds, pause paths triggered by bad prices, second-opinion oracles, max-per-block throughput caps, withdrawal queues that absorb bad reports. Record which A1–A4 risks are mitigated by which fallback, and which are unmitigated. For EACH fallback you cite, state its activation status explicitly: (i) LIVE and enforcing on-chain today, (ii) DEPLOYED but not yet wired / activated (e.g., interface exists but the address is zero or the role is unassigned), or (iii) DOCUMENTED / PROPOSED only (forum post, LIP draft, audit pending). Only (i) counts as mitigation for the grade. A fallback in state (ii) or (iii) should be noted but must not reduce the risk in your steel-man or verdict. If you cannot determine activation status, add an unknowns[] entry rather than assume it is live. - A7. Sequencer / L1-liveness dependency BEYOND the base-chain substrate. SCOPE — sequencer risk only counts here when the protocol IS its own L2/L3 appchain or app-rollup, where the sequencer is part of the protocol's own stack and a freeze is a protocol-level outage. A protocol permissionlessly deployed on a third-party L2 inherits that L2's sequencer as substrate, not an A7 dependency. Record the sequencer/DA trust model when A7 applies. - A8. Keeper / relayer / off-chain bot liveness. Protocols that need permissionless-but-necessary off-chain actors (liquidation bots, auto-compounders, deposit relayers, intent solvers). Record whether the role is permissionless, what degrades if nobody runs it (yield paused, bad debt accumulates, positions go stale), and whether the failure mode is graceful or catastrophic. - A9. Governance-mutable dependency surface. Can an admin or DAO action silently INTRODUCE a NEW EXTERNAL dependency — swap the oracle address to a different provider, register a new staking module that calls an untrusted contract, add a new bridge, route SY through a new external vault — without an exit window for users? Check the upgrade / router / module-registry contracts. Answer: which EXTERNAL dependencies are governance-mutable, who holds that power, and whether there is a timelock or exit window. SCOPE LIMIT — read carefully: A9 is about the *external dependency surface*, not the upgrade surface in general. "The proxyAdmin / EOA can upgrade the router implementation to arbitrary bytecode" is a CONTROL-slice finding (admin can rug), NOT an autonomy-A9 finding. A9 fires only when the upgrade specifically swaps out or adds a contract that THIS protocol calls or trusts (e.g., changing the oracle address from Chainlink to a malicious feed, registering a new SY adapter that points to a third-party vault, redirecting a bridge endpoint). If the only finding is "admin can change implementation," do not log it under A9 and do not let it drive the autonomy grade — note it under control instead. The autonomy-relevant version of the same upgrade key is "admin can swap [specific external address X] without timelock"; that requires identifying the specific external dependency that becomes mutable. STEEL-MAN (per Hard Rule 13): write one-sentence strongest arguments for red, orange, and green using the A1–A9 findings. IMPACTED TVS ESTIMATE: the headline MUST include a rough impacted-TVS figure — the fraction of protocol TVS that could be lost or frozen if the worst-unmitigated dependency you identified failed. Use "~X%" if exact numbers are unavailable, "<1%" for de minimis, "unclear" only if A1–A9 left the question genuinely open (in which case grade=unknown is usually correct). Do NOT substitute qualitative phrases like "significant" — give a number or bracket. GRADE ANCHORS (mapped to DefiScan v1 stages): - green = Stage 2 equivalent. Failure of any external dependency cannot cause loss of user principal or unclaimed yield. Either there are no material external dependencies, or every critical one has a documented fallback (A6) that keeps users whole. Governance cannot silently introduce new dependencies without an exit window (A9). Impacted TVS under any single-dependency failure: effectively 0. - orange = Stage 1 equivalent. Failure of some external dependency can cause loss of unclaimed yield, or can materially change expected performance (pause withdrawals, freeze positions, degrade price quality), but cannot cause loss of principal. Committee-based oracles with sanity checks, canonical-only bridges, fallback paths that exist but are incomplete, or governance-mutable dependencies protected by a ≥7-day timelock. Impacted TVS is bounded and recoverable. - red = Stage 0 equivalent. Failure of an external dependency CAN cause theft or loss of principal. Examples: single-provider oracle with no sanity check or fallback, material TVL on a non-canonical bridge with a guardian multisig, governance can hot-swap oracles or add staking modules with no timelock or exit window, unmitigated keeper-liveness dependency where positions become insolvent if bots stop. Impacted TVS is material. - unknown = checklist incomplete after inspecting source + verified contracts. Prefer unknown over guessing when A1/A6 could not be reconstructed. RESERVE unknown for cases where the CORE ARCHITECTURE itself is unverifiable — not for cases where you merely cannot enumerate every per-market dependency in a multi-market protocol. If the core router/factory/oracle architecture is verifiable on-chain and you can determine whether the core requires external dependencies, grade the architecture even when an exhaustive per-market external-dependency census is infeasible. Acknowledge the per-market gap in unknowns[] but still issue a grade. Refusing to grade a multi-market protocol because you cannot list every SY/vault/market is over-use of unknown; grade the architecture and say so. PROMPT-META CHECK (per Hard Rule 17): before finalizing, verify the verdict cites concrete contract addresses, docs, or code — not the rubric itself. If your verdict says "the protocol belongs to a category the rubric marks red", rewrite it with the A1–A9 finding that actually justifies the grade, or drop to grade=unknown. --- ### JSON output contract Return exactly one JSON object inside a single ```json fenced block. Shape: { "schema_version": 4, "slug": "<copy protocol.slug from the per-protocol context>", "slice": "autonomy", "snapshot_generated_at": "<copy snapshot.generated_at from the per-protocol context>", "prompt_version": 29, "analysis_date": "<copy analysis_date from the per-protocol context>", "model": "<exact model name, e.g. claude-opus-4-7 / gpt-5-thinking / gemini-3-pro>", "chat_url": null, "grading_basis": "on-chain | off-chain-only | mixed (optional; omit for on-chain)", "grade": "green | orange | red | unknown", "headline": "<one-line summary>", "short_headline": "<≤6 words, ≤80 chars; omit if you can't fit>", "rationale": { "findings": [{ "code": "E1", "text": "<concrete, source-cited finding>" }], "steelman": { "red": "<one sentence>", "orange": "<one sentence>", "green": "<one sentence>" }, "verdict": "Choosing <grade> because <reason ranking one steel-man above the others, citing specific evidence>." }, "evidence": [{ "url": "https://...", "shows": "<what this URL demonstrates>", "chain": "...", "address": "0x...", "commit": "<hex SHA>", "fetched_at": "2026-04-23T11:20:00Z" }], "unknowns": ["E3: <thing you looked for but couldn't determine>"], "protocol_metadata": { "github": ["https://github.com/org/repo"], "docs_url": "https://docs.protocol.xyz", "audits": [{ "firm": "Trail of Bits", "url": "https://...report.pdf", "date": "2025-09" }], "governance_forum": "https://forum.protocol.xyz", "voting_token": { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "symbol": "XYZ" }, "bug_bounty_url": "https://immunefi.com/bounty/protocol", "security_contact": "security@protocol.xyz", "deployed_contracts_doc": "https://docs.protocol.xyz/deployments", "admin_addresses": [{ "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "role": "DAO treasury multisig", "actor_class": "multisig" }], "upgradeability": "immutable | upgradeable | mixed | unknown", "about": "<2–4 sentences>" } } Rules recap: - grade="unknown" ⇒ steelman=null; unknowns[] ≥1; evidence[] may be empty. - grade!="unknown" ⇒ steelman={red,orange,green}; evidence[] ≥1; verdict starts with "Choosing ". - findings[].code matches the slice's checklist prefix verbatim (E1, C2-emergency, V4a, …); unknowns[] entries are checklist-coded ("E3: …"). - Wrap in a single ```json fence; nothing before or after. URLs are bare strings, never markdown links. - Contract-level KYC whitelist on NXM transfers; Registry.join requires KYC-authority signature; 27+ jurisdictions blocked
Verdict
Choosing red because the rubric's red bar is met unambiguously: 'contract-level whitelist / KYC on user entry/exit' — NXMToken has whiteListed(address) gating transfers and Registry.join requires KYC-authority signature. This is not frontend-only ToS posture; it is enforced in immutable token bytecode (NXMToken is immutable per docs) and in the upgradeable Registry. Existence of an SDK / direct Etherscan access does not change this because no independent path allows non-KYC'd addresses to participate. The geographical restriction list (27 jurisdictions) is operationally enforced at the KYC step. This is a fundamental property of the discretionary-mutual model and is disclosed clearly to users.
Steelman argument
Steelman argument NXMToken has a contract-level whitelist on transfers (whiteListed modifier), Registry.join requires a signature from a single off-chain KYC authority (0x176c27...4656, an EOA), and 27 jurisdictions are explicitly excluded — this is contract-enforced KYC gating user entry, which the rubric explicitly designates as red.Evidence (8)
- A1
- NXMToken (immutable, 0xd7c49CEE...4Cf3B) enforces an on-chain whitelist via whiteListed(address) and addToWhiteList/removeFromWhiteList functions controlled by the operator (TokenController = 0x540738...0B8). Token transfers between non-whitelisted addresses are blocked at the contract level. Registry contract enforces onlyMember and NotMember errors on all member-only entry points.
- A2
- Registry.join(address member, bytes signature) requires a valid signature from kycAuthAddress = 0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656 (an off-chain KYC authority, EOA). Without this signature, an address cannot become a member and therefore cannot hold NXM, buy cover, stake, or vote. This is admission-gated by a single off-chain operator.
- A3-active
- Frontend enforces KYC verification: per the membership page, prospective members must 'submit a photo of your government-issued identification, which will be used in the verification process' and pay a 0.0020 ETH JOIN_FEE (read on-chain in Registry.JOIN_FEE = 2000000000000000).
- A3
- Geographic restrictions enumerated explicitly: Nexus Mutual cannot accept members from 27 listed jurisdictions including Algeria, Angola, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Cote d'Ivoire, DRC, Haiti, India, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Mexico, Monaco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, North Korea, Russia, South Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Yemen. This restriction is enforced via the KYC step.
- A3b
- Independent access paths exist for already-KYC'd members: an SDK is published at https://sdk.nexusmutual.io (linked from the GitHub repo README) and the contracts are directly callable on Etherscan for any whitelisted address. However, these paths do NOT bypass the contract-level whitelist — they only let an existing member interact without the frontend. There is no path by which a non-KYC'd address can hold NXM or buy cover.
- A4
- No explicit on-chain OFAC blocklist contract was identified in the surfaced ABIs. Sanctions enforcement is done off-chain via the KYC process; the KYC authority's signature is the on-chain enforcement point.
- A5
- Read access is fully permissionless — all view methods (member counts, proposal state, contract addresses) are openly readable. Write access (joining, buying cover, staking, voting, redeeming NXM) is gated to whitelisted members only.
- A6
- ToS / Member Agreement is linked from the membership page at https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/62d8193ce9880895261daf4a/63d0f45aacb2752b543ddcaf_Nexus-Mutual-DAO-Member-Agreement-FIN.pdf — the membership-page summary confirms KYC/AML requirement: 'To become a member, you will need to verify your identity through the Know-Your-Customer / Anti-Money-Laundering process. If this fails, you won't be able to join the Mutual.' Verbatim quote captured from the docs page; the full PDF was not separately fetched this run.
Why is this consensus tentative?- weak consensus margin
A fresh independent run can strengthen (or overturn) the verdict.
Run your own prompt Submit run ↗### Per-protocol context (ground truth for this run) - protocol.slug: nexus-mutual - protocol.name: Nexus Mutual - protocol.chains: Ethereum - protocol.category: Insurance - protocol.website: https://nexusmutual.io/ - protocol.github: NexusMutual - protocol.audit_links: https://nexusmutual.gitbook.io/docs/helpful-resources/audits-and-security - snapshot.generated_at: 2026-06-01T11:27:13.878Z - analysis_date: 2026-06-08 - prompt_version: 29 - address_book: [ { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e", "role": "NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900", "role": "TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e", "role": "Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e", "role": "Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656", "role": "KYC auth address returned by Registry" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32", "role": "Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D", "role": "Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9", "role": "DAO treasury Safe" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1", "role": "DAO teams 3/5 multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b", "role": "token" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884", "role": "pool" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926", "role": "multisig" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f", "role": "proxy" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f", "role": "other" }, { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139", "role": "other" } ] ### Pre-built read-API surfacer URLs (verbatim — fetchable as-is) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x01BFd82675DBCc7762C84019cA518e701C0cD07e (NXMaster proxy/admin target referenced by multiple modules) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x4A5C681dDC32acC6ccA51ac17e9d461e6be87900 (TemporaryGovernance and proxyOwner of NXMaster) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x51ad1265C8702c9e96Ea61Fe4088C2e22eD4418e (Advisory Board multisig address exposed by TemporaryGovernance) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea2c575550512582090AA06d0a069E7236b9e (Registry proxy with upgrade, pause, membership and KYC-auth configuration functions) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x176c27973E0229501D049De626d50918ddA24656 (KYC auth address returned by Registry) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xcafea6063d4Ec6b045d9676e58897C1f0882Ca32 (Governor (proxy admin of Registry; 3d voting + 1d timelock)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x422D71fb8040aBEF53f3a05d21A9B85eebB2995D (Emergency Pause Safe (2-of-6, can pause RAMM / protocol)) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x586b9b2f8010b284a0197f392156f1a7eb5e86e9 (DAO treasury Safe) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x57d2D86d32497bC4AEd3b603A391db50c10D7fA1 (DAO teams 3/5 multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xd7c49cee7e9188cca6ad8ff264c1da2e69d4cf3b (token) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0xfd61352232157815cf7b71045557192bf0ce1884 (pool) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x055cc48f7968fd8640ef140610dd4038e1b03926 (multisig) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x84edffa16bb0b9ab1163abb0a13ff0744c11272f (proxy) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x27e6d3Ce99Fa5ec4019Ce598aF54bcB3A2FB2E5f (other) - https://defipunkd.com/address/1/0x813174d3eC6f7C11f4364a637cEf0f1CD6176139 (other) --- You are contributing a single-slice assessment to defipunkd, a git-native transparency registry for DeFi protocols. Your JSON output will be attached to a pull request and compared against ≥2 other independent runs. Disagreements are surfaced publicly — be conservative, cite everything, return grade="unknown" when a signal cannot be determined, and resist stopping at the first damning finding. ### Per-protocol context (do not infer; these are ground truth) A "Per-protocol context" block (provided alongside this prompt — either as a user message in API mode, or as a section appended below in copy-paste mode) lists the pinned inputs (protocol.slug, name, chains, category, website, github, audit_links, snapshot.generated_at, analysis_date, prompt_version, address_book) and a list of pre-built read-API surfacer URLs for each pinned address. Treat those values as authoritative for this run. The pre-built surfacer URLs are accepted by your fetch tool's allowlist because they appear verbatim in the per-protocol context. Each surfacer page pre-executes the contract's zero-arg view methods and renders any address-typed return values as /address/{chainId}/0x… links inline — those rendered links are also fetchable post-fetch. /api/contract/read and /api/safe/owners JSON responses include a top-level `crawl.surfacers` array of /address/{chainId}/0x… URLs for every address-typed value in the result, so you can crawl directly from API responses. For addresses surfaced from non-defipunkd sources (block-explorer pages, GitHub, audit PDFs), the allowlist will reject your generated surfacer URL — record the address in protocol_metadata.admin_addresses and add a checklist-coded entry to unknowns[]; the next run will inherit it as a fetchable surfacer. ### Step 0 — Capability probe (do this before producing JSON) Identify what fetch tool your environment exposes — `web_fetch`, `browser`, `url_context`, `google_search` (with underscore, colon, or space), Bing grounding, Perplexity, `web.run`, or anything similar. Search-grounding tools ARE valid fetch paths and you should use them; they are not forbidden. The distinction that matters is what the tool returned, not its name: a grounded response with the underlying page body is sufficient evidence; a bare 1–3-line preview snippet is not. Probe: attempt one fetch of `protocol.website` and one fetch of a pre-built surfacer URL above (or the protocol's primary block-explorer page if no surfacer is pinned). Record the tool you used, the URL, and what came back (response body, HTTP status, allowlist rejection text, or "tool not present: <name>"). If either probe succeeded, proceed. If both direct probes failed, **DO NOT STOP** — try search. Issue at least two broad search queries (protocol name + "Etherscan" / "official docs" / "GitHub" / "audit"; `site:` operators against etherscan.io / github.com / the docs domain). If a search query returns the underlying page body, that page URL is fetched evidence and goes in evidence[]. Set `grading_basis: "off-chain-only"` and continue with whatever you can extract. Empty `evidence[]` + `grade="unknown"` is only valid if BOTH direct probes AND ≥2 search queries returned nothing usable; in that case, log the attempted queries and observed-zero outcomes in unknowns[]. A submission claiming "blocked" without those receipts is treated as a non-submission (zero quorum weight). Search engines do not index raw JSON API endpoints — zero results for `defipunkd.com/api/contract/read` URLs is expected and is itself a recordable failure mode, not a system restriction. ### Anti-fabrication (the most important rule on this page) Memory is not evidence. Treat your training data, prior conversations, and general knowledge as suggestions for what to look up — never as citations. Every URL in evidence[] must have been fetched in this run via any tool exposed in your environment, OR pasted into this conversation by the user. Constructing a URL is fine, but every variable part (address, commit SHA, repo path, contract name, method, args, block number) must come from a fetched/pasted source in this run, and the URL must then have been successfully fetched before it appears in evidence[]. URLs constructed from remembered addresses, repo paths, contract names, or guessed API methods are fabrication. Before emitting JSON, run an evidence ledger check on every evidence[] entry: 1. The exact URL appears in your fetch transcript or in a user-pasted source body. 2. The fetched/pasted body contains the fact you're citing in evidence[].shows. 3. Every rationale.findings / protocol_metadata claim that depends on this evidence follows directly from that body, without recourse to memory. 4. Derived (rather than verbatim) claims are explicitly labelled as derived in evidence[].shows. 5. `fetched_at` is set ONLY when you actually fetched the URL in this run; if no timestamp is available, omit the field — never invent one. If any check fails, remove the evidence entry and demote dependent claims to unknowns[]. Set grade="unknown" if demotion empties the grading basis. Do not ask the user to paste anything; do not withhold JSON; do not improvise from memory. A plausible-sounding answer backed by unsupported evidence is WORSE than grade="unknown" — it pollutes the quorum. If the assessment requires leaning on remembered public facts ("Lido is governed by LDO token-weighted voting"), historical reports, common knowledge, or likely-architecture reasoning ("UUPS proxies typically have an admin role"), return grade="unknown" with specific unknowns[] entries. Optimize for reproducibility, not completeness — if a reviewer can't re-verify each claim from the evidence URLs alone, the claim does not belong in the JSON. Empty unknowns[] on a non-trivial protocol is a red flag, not a quality signal. When the address_book is null/empty, you do not yet know any deployed address. Discover candidates from fetched website / GitHub / audit / explorer-search pages — addresses you "remember" from training data are not eligible, even for famous tokens (USDC, WBTC, stETH, UNI). If no address can be discovered after a good-faith attempt, return grade="unknown" with checklist-coded unknowns[] entries; do not invent addresses to fill the gap. ### Hard rules 1. Source classes that count as evidence: a) Public block explorers (etherscan.io, basescan.org, arbiscan.io, optimistic.etherscan.io, polygonscan.com, bscscan.com, snowtrace.io, scrollscan.com, lineascan.build, blastscan.io, era.zksync.network) for pinned addresses or addresses you discover transitively from them. b) The linked GitHub repos, at a specific commit SHA recorded in evidence[].commit. c) The audit PDFs / reports linked above. d) DeFiLlama's pinned fields (for category / chain lists only — not for risk assessment). e) DeFiPunkd's read API at https://defipunkd.com/api/{contract,safe}/... — see "On-chain reading" below. 2. If a signal cannot be determined after checking these, set grade="unknown" with ≥1 entry in unknowns[] naming what you looked for. 3. Every factual claim in rationale must map to ≥1 evidence[] entry. 4. Output exactly one JSON object matching the contract at the end, wrapped in a single ```json fenced code block. This rule applies to your FINAL assistant message only — issue tool calls freely during the run; tool-call reasoning lives in your model's tool-use channel and is not subject to this rule. Nothing before or after the fence — no prose, no follow-up questions, no requests for the user to paste anything. If evidence is incomplete, the correct response is still JSON, with claims demoted to unknowns[] and grade="unknown". ### Format rules (validation will reject submissions that violate these) 5. evidence[].url must be a bare `https://...` string — NEVER markdown link syntax. WRONG: `"url": "[Etherscan](https://etherscan.io/...)"`. RIGHT: `"url": "https://etherscan.io/..."`. 6. evidence[].commit, when present, must match `^[0-9a-f]{7,40}$` (lowercase hex, 7–40 chars). NEVER branch names or tags. Omit if you cannot pin a SHA. 7. evidence[].fetched_at, when present, must be ISO-8601 UTC (e.g. `2026-04-23T11:20:00Z`). Set whenever you actually fetched in this run. 8. evidence[].address, when present, must be `^0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$` (mixed case OK; checksum not validated). 9. Checklist codes (used in findings[].code and as unknowns[] prefixes) match `^[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,16}$` — start with an uppercase letter, then digits / letters / hyphens. Examples: `E1`, `A3b`, `C2-emergency`, `V4-auditor`. No parens, spaces, dots, slashes, underscores. Use slice-defined codes verbatim. unknowns[] entries must be prefixed with the relevant code + colon (e.g. `"A3b: frontend fetch failed"`). 10. chat_url: ALWAYS null. Default share links (claude.ai/chat, chatgpt.com, gemini.google.com) require viewer login and are not publicly readable. The user enables "Share publicly" after you respond and pastes the public URL into the JSON before opening the PR. ### Thoroughness rules 11. Each per-slice body contains a "MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST". Every item must EITHER produce an evidence[] entry OR a specific unknowns[] entry naming it by code. Silent skips are rejected as incomplete. 12. Before assigning a grade other than "unknown", rationale.steelman must contain a one-sentence strongest argument for each of red / orange / green, and rationale.verdict must state which fits the evidence and why. If the steel-man for the chosen grade is weaker than for an adjacent grade, you have probably picked the wrong grade. When grade="unknown", set steelman to null and use verdict to summarize what blocked the assessment. 13. Distinguish actor classes (EOA, 2-of-3 multisig, 4-of-7+ multisig with identified signers, emergency-scoped time-capped multisig, on-chain governance vote with timelock) and function classes (claim-of-finalized vs new-request-placement, deposit vs borrow, mint vs redeem) — say which actor holds which power, on what time bound. "An admin can pause" is insufficient. 14. For on-chain slices (control, ability-to-exit, autonomy, verifiability), evidence[] must include ≥1 on-chain URL: a block-explorer URL OR a DeFiPunkd /api/{contract/read,safe/owners} URL (preferred — content-addressed when block-pinned). /api/contract/abi alone is metadata, not on-chain evidence. Source repos tell you what code SHOULD do; deployed contracts tell you what it ACTUALLY does. The "open-access" slice is exempt when claims are entirely about frontend / off-chain operator behavior. CARVE-OUT: `grading_basis="off-chain-only"` is exempt from this rule but is downweighted by the quorum bot regardless of grade. 15. Prompt-meta-check: if your verdict quotes prompt language as evidence ("the protocol meets the 'documented fallback' condition"), re-do the verdict — the prompt describes the rubric, not the protocol. Evidence cites what THIS protocol does, not what the rubric says protocols of type X do. 16. `grading_basis` is one of `"on-chain"` (default; omit field), `"off-chain-only"`, or `"mixed"`. Describes what was READ this run, not the verdict — `grade="unknown"` is allowed under any basis. Set `"off-chain-only"` ONLY when BOTH (a) ≥1 successful fetch of a docs / forum / audit / GitHub URL appears in evidence[], AND (b) ≥1 failed on-chain fetch attempt for THIS run is recorded in unknowns[] with a `-offchain` suffix. Empty `evidence[]` with `"off-chain-only"` is a category error and is rejected by the validator. Set `"mixed"` when some checklist codes were on-chain and others fell back. ABI-only finds (you read the ABI but couldn't read live state) are valid as `grade="unknown"` with the ABI cited; do not infer a grade from ABI shape alone. ### On-chain reading via the DeFiPunkd API Don't encode calldata, decode return data, or guess at ABIs by hand. Three deterministic GET endpoints return JSON with blockNumber, blockHash, raw calldata, and rawReturnData — content-addressed when block-pinned (`&block=<n>`): ABI (auto-resolves proxies): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/abi?chainId=<id>&address=0x... View call (any view method on the merged ABI; flat scalar args): https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=getOwners https://defipunkd.com/api/contract/read?chainId=<id>&address=0x...&method=balanceOf&args=0x... Safe (threshold + owners + version in one call): https://defipunkd.com/api/safe/owners?chainId=<id>&address=0x... Use the BARE method name in `&method=` (e.g. `&method=totalSupply`, NOT `&method=totalSupply()`). Browser tools normalize `(` to `%28` and reject the normalized URL; bare names dodge that. Pass arguments via `&args=` (comma-separated, declaration order). Append `&block=<n>` for content-addressed evidence. Supported chainIds: 1 (ethereum), 10 (optimism), 56 (bsc), 130 (unichain), 137 (polygon), 324 (zksync), 8453 (base), 42161 (arbitrum), 43114 (avalanche), 59144 (linea), 81457 (blast), 534352 (scroll), 11155111 (sepolia). Use this API for any factual claim about contract ABI shape, view-method return values (owner(), getOwners(), getThreshold(), totalSupply(), implementation(), paused(), MIN_DELAY(), …), and Safe membership. Do NOT invent ABIs or return values from training data. Note on noisy address_book: the pinned address_book is sourced from prior assessments. It may include token deployments, oracle feeds, peripheral contracts, or mis-classified entries. Skip surfacer URLs that don't fit your slice — fetch only those whose role hints suggest control / pause / upgrade authority. ### Protocol metadata refresh (populate `protocol_metadata` in the output) DeFiLlama's pinned inputs may be stale or wrong. As a side-effect of this assessment, populate `protocol_metadata` with anything you verify. Leave fields null / empty arrays if you did not verify them — do NOT echo pinned inputs through; null means "not re-verified this run". - `github`: array of canonical source-code repo URLs. - `docs_url`: canonical developer / protocol documentation site. - `audits`: array of `{ firm, url, date }` (date as YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD). - `governance_forum`: primary discussion forum URL (Discourse, Commonwealth, etc.). - `voting_token`: `{ chain, address, symbol }` or null. Omit if not token-governed. - `bug_bounty_url`: public bug bounty page (Immunefi, HackerOne, self-hosted). - `security_contact`: private-disclosure channel — security@ email or SECURITY.md URL. Distinct from public bug bounty. - `deployed_contracts_doc`: docs page that lists deployed addresses per chain. Don't enumerate; just link. - `admin_addresses`: array of `{ chain, address, role, actor_class }` for multisig / timelock / owner / proxy-admin addresses. `actor_class` ∈ `"eoa" | "multisig" | "timelock" | "governance" | "unknown"`. These are the anchors for future runs' address_book. - `upgradeability`: `"immutable" | "upgradeable" | "mixed" | "unknown"`. "mixed" = some core contracts immutable, others behind proxies. - `about`: 2–4 sentence plain-English description. Name the user action (stake, borrow, swap, bridge, mint, redeem), the asset / market, and the distinctive mechanism (liquid staking receipt, isolated lending pools, constant-product AMM, intents auction, etc.). Do not restate category / chains / TVL. Every non-null field in `protocol_metadata` must be backed by ≥1 entry in evidence[]. --- ### Slice: OPEN-ACCESS Evaluate who is allowed to use the protocol and whether any of that permission is granted off-chain. Scope: this slice is about ADMISSION — who can enter, exit, or transact. Operator LIVENESS (what breaks if keepers/oracles go offline) is assessed in the dependencies slice and is out of scope for the grade here. You may note operator dependencies as context, but do not let "the protocol halts if operator X disappears" drive the access grade on its own; that belongs in dependencies. Source verification / contract verification on block explorers is assessed in the verifiability slice and is out of scope here — do NOT let "contract is unverified" drive the access grade. Framing: the smart contracts are the access layer; frontends are UX. A permissionless contract is reachable by any client (SDK, third-party UI, aggregator, wallet integration). Frontend ToS, IP geo-blocking, and wallet screening are publisher policies on one specific client — they are reported as context but do NOT determine the grade. The grade hinges on (1) what the contract itself permits, and (2) whether the protocol is practically reachable without the official publisher's cooperation. Meta-check before finalizing: if your verdict cites phrases from this prompt as evidence ("the protocol meets the 'credible alternatives' condition", "this fits the 'documented fallback' rule"), redo the verdict. The prompt describes the rubric; evidence must come from the protocol. A verdict should cite what the protocol does, not what the rubric says. MANDATORY INSPECTION CHECKLIST (every item below must appear in evidence[] OR unknowns[]): - A1. Whitelist / allowlist modifiers in user-facing entry points. Grep for "onlyWhitelisted", "onlyRole", "allowlist", "isAccredited", "isKYCed". Note which functions are gated and who can add/remove from the list. - A2. Off-chain operators in the admission path: keepers, sequencers, privileged relayers, oracle posters whose approval is required to admit a user action (not just to keep the protocol live). For each, identify whether the role is held by a single operator, a permissioned committee, or is permissionless. Enumerate per user-facing function class (deposit vs withdraw-request vs claim-finalized vs transfer) which ones require operator approval to be admitted, and which ones admit users unconditionally. A function whose placement is unconditional but whose downstream settlement depends on an operator is an admission-permissionless function — flag the liveness dependency as context and defer its grading weight to the dependencies slice. - A3. Frontend restrictions on the official interface — record as context, not as a grade lever. Distinguish: - A3-passive: boilerplate ToS clauses (sanctions attestation, restricted-territory self-certification, VPN-circumvention prohibition, "comply with applicable law" eligibility, age of majority). - A3-active: runtime enforcement — IP-based geo-blocking, wallet-address screening against a sanctions oracle (Chainalysis, TRM, Elliptic), KYC wall, rendering-blocking jurisdiction banner. Record findings under the correct tier. Quote ToS text or banner text in evidence[].shows. These findings populate the headline and rationale but do NOT move the grade by themselves; the grade is set by A1, A2, and the A3b path check below. - A3b. Independent access paths (the operative grade input). Enumerate paths that do not require the official publisher's cooperation: - Published SDK / library / CLI for direct contract interaction. - Third-party frontends operated by separate legal entities. - Wallet-integrated access (MetaMask Swaps, Safe apps, etc.). - DEX / lending / yield aggregators that route through the contracts. Record at least one concrete link per path that exists. The protocol does NOT have to self-document these — the test is existence, not UX cost. An A3b-i redistribution of the official UI bound by the same ToS does NOT count as an independent path. - A4. Sanctions / compliance tooling at the contract level: does the protocol check addresses against OFAC lists or similar on-chain blocklists in the contract itself? (Frontend-only screening belongs in A3.) - A5. Differentiate read access vs write access: many protocols are read-permissionless (anyone can view state) but write-gated (only certain addresses can deposit/borrow). Record both. - A6. ToS / Legal links: locate them on the website and produce a VERBATIM quote of any jurisdictional, sanctions, or eligibility clause in evidence[].shows. If you cannot extract the clause text verbatim (SPA render failure, paywall, dead link, etc.), do NOT paraphrase or infer from general knowledge — record the ToS URL in unknowns[] with the reason extraction failed. Assertions about ToS content without a verbatim quote will be downweighted by reviewers. Then write the steel-man section per Hard Rule 11. Grade rules (admission-focused; liveness concerns belong in dependencies; source verification belongs in verifiability): - green = no contract-level whitelist/KYC on user entry/exit; no operator approval required to admit a user action; AND at least one independent A3b path exists (published SDK, third-party frontend, wallet integration, or aggregator routing). Frontend ToS posture and A3-active enforcement on the official UI do NOT block green when contracts are permissionless and an independent path exists — they are reported as context. - orange = contracts admit users unconditionally, BUT the protocol is operationally captured by the official publisher: no published SDK, no third-party frontend, no wallet integration, no aggregator routing. The contract is theoretically open but practically reachable only through the official UI. Also applies when admission requires approval from a permissioned committee that is governance-managed with a documented replacement procedure. - red = contract-level whitelist / KYC on user entry/exit, OR admission of a core user action requires approval from a single privileged operator or a small committee with no documented replacement procedure, OR enforces an on-chain blocklist updatable by a single party. - unknown = checklist incomplete after checking the sources above. Default-grade guidance: when contracts are fully permissionless AND any A3b independent path exists, the default grade is green regardless of frontend ToS or A3-active enforcement on the official UI. Frontend geo-blocking, sanctions-oracle wallet screening, and ToS sanctions clauses are publisher policies on one client and are reported in findings/headline as context, not as grade levers. To grade orange on operational-capture grounds, the auditor must affirmatively show that ALL independent paths are absent or also gated. Guideline on committees: where admission depends on a multi-operator committee, the relevant axes are (a) set size, (b) whether replacement/rotation is governed on-chain, (c) whether the replacement procedure is publicly documented. A large set with on-chain governance replacement should not be graded as a single-party operator even if rotation is not instantaneous. A small set with informal replacement should be treated as a single-party operator. --- ### JSON output contract Return exactly one JSON object inside a single ```json fenced block. Shape: { "schema_version": 4, "slug": "<copy protocol.slug from the per-protocol context>", "slice": "open-access", "snapshot_generated_at": "<copy snapshot.generated_at from the per-protocol context>", "prompt_version": 29, "analysis_date": "<copy analysis_date from the per-protocol context>", "model": "<exact model name, e.g. claude-opus-4-7 / gpt-5-thinking / gemini-3-pro>", "chat_url": null, "grading_basis": "on-chain | off-chain-only | mixed (optional; omit for on-chain)", "grade": "green | orange | red | unknown", "headline": "<one-line summary>", "short_headline": "<≤6 words, ≤80 chars; omit if you can't fit>", "rationale": { "findings": [{ "code": "E1", "text": "<concrete, source-cited finding>" }], "steelman": { "red": "<one sentence>", "orange": "<one sentence>", "green": "<one sentence>" }, "verdict": "Choosing <grade> because <reason ranking one steel-man above the others, citing specific evidence>." }, "evidence": [{ "url": "https://...", "shows": "<what this URL demonstrates>", "chain": "...", "address": "0x...", "commit": "<hex SHA>", "fetched_at": "2026-04-23T11:20:00Z" }], "unknowns": ["E3: <thing you looked for but couldn't determine>"], "protocol_metadata": { "github": ["https://github.com/org/repo"], "docs_url": "https://docs.protocol.xyz", "audits": [{ "firm": "Trail of Bits", "url": "https://...report.pdf", "date": "2025-09" }], "governance_forum": "https://forum.protocol.xyz", "voting_token": { "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "symbol": "XYZ" }, "bug_bounty_url": "https://immunefi.com/bounty/protocol", "security_contact": "security@protocol.xyz", "deployed_contracts_doc": "https://docs.protocol.xyz/deployments", "admin_addresses": [{ "chain": "Ethereum", "address": "0x...", "role": "DAO treasury multisig", "actor_class": "multisig" }], "upgradeability": "immutable | upgradeable | mixed | unknown", "about": "<2–4 sentences>" } } Rules recap: - grade="unknown" ⇒ steelman=null; unknowns[] ≥1; evidence[] may be empty. - grade!="unknown" ⇒ steelman={red,orange,green}; evidence[] ≥1; verdict starts with "Choosing ". - findings[].code matches the slice's checklist prefix verbatim (E1, C2-emergency, V4a, …); unknowns[] entries are checklist-coded ("E3: …"). - Wrap in a single ```json fence; nothing before or after. URLs are bare strings, never markdown links.
Stage
Preview of the Phase-3 maturity framework. DeFiPunk'd will adopt DeFiScan v2's stages verbatim; the section is rendered below in its intended shape so the structure is visible today.
Nexus Mutual has not yet been assessed under the DeFiScan v2 stage framework.
The walkaway test is the central criterion. Once stages land, protocols reach Stage 1 only if users can exit in the presence of malicious operators even when the emergency council disappears.
Scope of assessment
Stages are assessed per-protocol against DeFiScan v2's criteria: governance structure, upgradeability path, timelock durations, emergency-council scope, and the walkaway test. The analysis depends on onchain discovery (roles, owners, timelocks) and deeper review of deployed contracts — neither of which DeFiPunk'd automates at Phase 0.
Stage 0 requirements pending
Governance is largely off-chain, contracts are upgradeable with short or no timelock, and the protocol depends on a multisig or team with full discretion. At Phase 0 DeFiPunk'd does not automatically evaluate these; the assessment lands with crawler-based onchain discovery.
Stage 1 requirements pending
Users can exit or opt out on their own terms even if the team disappears. Upgrades run through a meaningful timelock with an emergency security council clearly scoped. The walkaway test is the headline criterion.
Stage 2 requirements pending
Protocol is fully permissionless and immutable, or upgrades require a supermajority of token holders with a long timelock and no emergency override. This is the terminal stage of the DeFiScan v2 framework.
Stages are an opinionated assessment of maturity, not a rating of security or safety. A protocol can sit at Stage 2 and still carry substantial technical or economic risk; the framework exists to incentivize decentralization, not to rank protocols.
Contract surface
Every contract in scope for this protocol — pooled from DeFiLlama's TVL adapter (mechanical) and DEFI@home discovery submissions (LLM-curated). Verified-source flags come from Etherscan + Sourcify; owner / multisig metadata is read on-chain when available. Reviewer audit context, not a slice score. A lending protocol's adapter set will list third-party collateral tokens alongside its own contracts; attribution is the grader's job.
- 8addresses
- 1verified source
- 1proxies
| ethereum | OwnedUpgradeabilityProxy | 0x01bf…d07e | TVL + disc | ✓ | proxy | — | — |
| Ethereum | multisig | 0x055c…3926 | discovery | — | — | — | multisig |
| Ethereum | other | 0x27e6…2e5f | discovery | — | — | — | — |
| Ethereum | other | 0x8131…6139 | discovery | — | — | — | — |
| Ethereum | pool | 0xfd61…1884 | discovery | — | — | — | — |
| Ethereum | proxy | 0x84ed…272f | discovery | — | — | — | — |
| Ethereum | token | 0xd7c4…cf3b | discovery | — | — | — | token |
| Ethereum | treasury | 0x586b…86e9 | discovery | — | — | — | multisig |
Protocol Info
Links
[defillama] Source: DeFiLlama [:] Source: DEFI@home quorum
- Website
- https://nexusmutual.io
- @NexusMutual
- GitHub
-
3 repositories
- Governance forum
- https://forum.nexusmutual.io/
Security
[:] Source: DEFI@home quorum
- Audits
-
16 audits
- Bug bounty
- https://immunefi.com/bounty/nexusmutual/
- Security contact
- https://docs.nexusmutual.io/resources/audits-and-security/
Technical
[:] Source: DEFI@home quorum
- Voting token
- NXM Ethereum: 0xd7c49CEE7E9188cCa6AD8FF264C1DA2e69D4Cf3B
- Deployed contracts
- https://sdk.nexusmutual.io
- Upgradeability
- Mixed (some immutable, some upgradeable)
Provenance
[defillama] Source: DeFiLlama
- Review status
- listed
- Updated
- 2026-06-01 11:27 UTC