Venus Protocol
DAMASCUSLending / Borrowing · BSC · $1.5B+ TVL · 20 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 BSC lending protocol, 67+ months live. Compound V2 fork with significant modifications. Historical bad debt and oracle manipulation incidents reduce resilience score. Governance and oracle framework improvements address past issues.
Dimension Breakdown
How scores work →- Comptroller admin controls
- Guardian for emergency
- Timelocked governance
- BSC-native access patterns
- Compound V2 fork economics
- VAI stablecoin adds risk
- Liquidation mechanism standard
- Historical bad debt events
- Chainlink + Band oracle
- Resilient oracle framework
- Price validation
- Multi-oracle approach
- Live since October 2020 (67+ months)
- Largest BSC lending protocol
- Survived multiple incidents
- Multiple version upgrades
- XVS governance token
- Community governance active
- Binance ecosystem alignment
- Governance improvements over time
- Multiple bad debt incidents historically
- Oracle manipulation exploit in 2023
- Active bounty program
- Incident response improving
- Professional team
- Monitoring infrastructure
- BSC-native ops
- Improving incident response
- BSC ecosystem integration
- VAI stablecoin dependencies
- Limited cross-chain
- LP token collateral
- Compound V2 fork
- Standard Solidity
- Verified on BscScan
- Standard dependencies
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
- "venus"
- Oracle
- BRORegistry (Base)
- Evidence
- IPFS (pinned)
- Staleness Threshold
- 24 hours
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