Kelp DAO
DAMASCUSLiquid Restaking · Ethereum · $1B+ TVL · 10 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
Liquid restaking protocol with rsETH token. 29+ months live with no exploits but limited battle-testing. Deep EigenLayer dependency and early governance centralization. Growing TVL but young protocol.
Dimension Breakdown
How scores work →- Admin controls for deposits/withdrawals
- Operator permissions
- Multisig for emergency
- Centralized parameter control
- rsETH liquid restaking model
- EigenLayer rewards pass-through
- Fee structure transparent
- Withdrawal queue implementation
- Exchange rate oracle
- Rate update mechanism
- Trust assumption in submissions
- Limited oracle redundancy
- Live since December 2023 (29+ months)
- Growing TVL
- No exploits
- Relatively young
- Early-stage governance
- Team controls operations
- No meaningful decentralization
- Foundation structure
- Audited
- Active bounty
- C4 competition
- Young protocol
- Growing team
- Monitoring
- Active development
- Validator coordination
- EigenLayer dependency
- rsETH DeFi integration
- Multiple AVS exposure
- Restaking composition complexity
- Standard Solidity
- OpenZeppelin
- Verified
- Moderate 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
- "kelp-dao"
- Oracle
- BRORegistry (Base)
- Evidence
- IPFS (pinned)
- Staleness Threshold
- 24 hours
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