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Vertex Protocol

Protocol · Perps DEX · Arbitrum · Damascus tier · Confidence 79 · vertexprotocol.com

763down 2
BRI out of 1000 · last move May 15
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May 15down 2Model updateDimensions rescored
Score 765 to 763Dimensions Several dimensions

BlackHart's method or evidence changed and the score was recalculated. No new release drove this move.

May 13down 34Model updateDimensions rescored
Score 799 to 765Dimensions Adversarial resilience

BlackHart's method or evidence changed and the score was recalculated. No new release drove this move.

May 6down 1Model updateDimensions rescored
Score 800 to 799Dimensions Several dimensions

BlackHart's method or evidence changed and the score was recalculated. No new release drove this move.

Dimensions

12 dimensions, 10 apply to Vertex Protocol. Open one to see how it is scored.
Access controlscore 59weight 18%

Admin keys, roles, permissions and the checks that guard them.

BlackHart-1On-chain rolesMultisig thresholdsTimelocksDeterministic
Economic soundnessscore 66weight 13%

How the economic design holds up under flash loans, MEV, liquidation cascades and bad incentives.

BlackHart-1 value flowDefiLlama dataDeterministic
Oracle integrityscore 95weight 13%

How prices reach the protocol, and how hard they are to manipulate or let go stale.

BlackHart-1On-chain oracle configurationDeterministic
Maturityscore 60weight 12%

Time in production, value secured over time, audits, bounties and incident history.

AgeTVL historyIncident historyDeterministic
Signals
Live since
Apr 1, 2023 (43 months)
TVL
$200M+
Audits
  • Spearbit, Jan 2024
  • Ackee Blockchain, Mar 2023
Bug bounty
HackenProof, up to $500,000
Governancescore 60weight 10%

Admin key concentration, timelocks and how upgrades happen.

On-chain parametersProposals and docsDecision model for docs
Adversarial resiliencescore 50weight 10%

How the code holds up under independent adversarial research.

Validated findingsSeverity-weighted BlackHart-1 candidatesAudit coverageDecision model to parse audit reports
Operational securityscore 52weight 10%

Incident response, deployment hygiene, key management and monitoring.

GitHub collectorDeterministic
Signals
GitHub scan
vertex-protocol/vertex-contracts on May 20
Branch protection
No
Required reviews
0
Signing ratio
94%
Commits in 90 days
0
PR review ratio
0%
Has CI
Yes
CI success rate
100%
Security policy
No
Deployment hygiene
70 of 100
Development practices
34 of 100
Emergency history
75 of 100
Incident response
35 of 100
Key management
70 of 100
Monitoring
40 of 100
Compositional riskscore 95weight 5%

External dependencies and the surface where contracts and integrations interact.

Integration graphDeterministic
Cascade exposurescore 100weight 5%

Failures upstream that could spread into the protocol, and the damage if it fails.

Dependency graphDeterministic
Supply chainscore 80weight 4%

Compiler versions, libraries, build reproducibility and proxy patterns.

Dependency manifestsPinned versionsKnown CVEsDeterministic
Signals
Dependabot
No