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DeFi
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Module 6
Institutional Protocol Risk and Diligence
1
Understanding Key Risks in DeFi Transactions
Distinguish custody risk, settlement risk, counterparty risk, and smart-contract risk in a DeFi transaction.
Distinguish custody risk, settlement risk, counterparty risk, and smart-contract risk in a DeFi transaction.
2
Identifying Privileged Roles and Trust Assumptions
Identify every privileged role and trust assumption disclosed in a protocol’s documentation.
Identify every privileged role and trust assumption disclosed in a protocol’s documentation.
3
Key Assumptions in On-Chain Derivatives
Identify the oracle, liquidity, and counterparty assumptions in an on-chain derivative.
Identify the oracle, liquidity, and counterparty assumptions in an on-chain derivative.
4
Recognizing Smart Contract Administrative Controls Without Code
Identify upgradeability, pause controls, multisignatures, timelocks, and other administrative powers without reading code.
Identify upgradeability, pause controls, multisignatures, timelocks, and other administrative powers without reading code.
5
Building Robust Oracles: Price Sources, Updates, and Fallbacks
Explain how price-source selection, update frequency, and fallback logic affect oracle robustness.
Explain how price-source selection, update frequency, and fallback logic affect oracle robustness.
6
Interpreting Smart-Contract Audit Findings
Interpret the scope, severity, status, and limitations of findings in a smart-contract audit report.
Interpret the scope, severity, status, and limitations of findings in a smart-contract audit report.
7
Evaluating Cybersecurity Protection Measures
Evaluate the protection offered by audits, formal verification, bug bounties, monitoring, and incident-response plans.
Evaluate the protection offered by audits, formal verification, bug bounties, monitoring, and incident-response plans.
8
Building a Comprehensive Protocol Security-Risk Profile
Build a security-risk profile from a protocol’s architecture, deployment history, privileged roles, and unresolved findings.
Build a security-risk profile from a protocol’s architecture, deployment history, privileged roles, and unresolved findings.
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