BENQI
DAMASCUSLending / Liquid Staking · Avalanche · $500M+ TVL · 15 contracts
Public risk assessment — scores are produced with the same methodology as monitored protocols
Security Profile
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Audit History
Bug Bounty Program
Assessment
Largest Avalanche lending protocol and liquid staking provider. 57+ months live with clean exploit history. Compound V2 fork provides proven codebase. sAVAX addition creates additional staking surface. Limited governance decentralization.
Dimension Breakdown
How scores work →- Compound V2 fork access model
- Admin multisig
- Guardian for emergency
- Standard lending permissions
- Compound V2 fork economics
- sAVAX liquid staking addition
- Liquidation mechanism standard
- Interest rate model proven
- Chainlink oracle integration
- Price validation
- Standard oracle pattern
- Avalanche-specific feeds
- Live since August 2021 (57+ months)
- Largest Avalanche lending protocol
- No protocol exploits
- Multiple product additions
- QI governance token
- Community governance
- Team controls parameters
- Limited decentralization
- Audited
- Compound fork reduces novel risk
- Active bounty
- Clean exploit history
- Professional team
- Monitoring
- Avalanche-native ops
- Validator operations for sAVAX
- Avalanche ecosystem integration
- sAVAX integration across DeFi
- Limited cross-chain
- Standard lending composability
- Compound V2 fork
- Standard Solidity
- Verified
- Standard deps
Additional Dimensions
- Not assessed — excluded from BRI computation
Risk Drivers
Primary risk factors driving this score, ordered by severity.
Adversarial Risk Signals
Observable security posture indicators. These signals reflect publicly verifiable information and responsible disclosure outcomes. No specific vulnerability details are exposed.
Score History & Verification
Score provenance tracking begins with the next reassessment.
On-Chain Data
- Protocol Slug
- "benqi"
- Oracle
- BRORegistry (Base)
- Evidence
- IPFS (pinned)
- Staleness Threshold
- 24 hours
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