About

Mission #

defirisk.co is a structural risk assessment of DeFi protocols. We grade what we can verify against an open rubric, and we are candid about what we cannot. The dashboard does not predict exploits; it exposes structural risk gaps in protocol deployments. An assigned grade is a protocol's standing against that rubric, nothing more.

Maintainer #

defirisk.co is maintained by 0x_Abdul. The maintainer holds authority on the rubric and the public repo.

Independence #

Independence is the only thing defirisk.co has to sell. There are no paid grades. Protocols cannot pay to be assessed, cannot pay to expedite an assessment, and cannot pay to influence one. defirisk.co is an open-source risk transparency dashboard for defi protocols.

Corrections & disputes #

Everything we publish is open to challenge through three channels, depending on what you are claiming is wrong:

• Factual Correction: a specific data point is wrong and you can cite a source. We re-evidence the factor and the letter recomputes.
• Grade Dispute: the facts are right but the rubric was applied incorrectly. Resolved through the appeals process by re-adjudicating the disputed factor.
• Rubric Proposal: the rule itself is miscalibrated. Filed as a public issue, reviewed by the maintainer, and either accepted into a future rubric version, deferred, or declined with a public note.

Every challenge is public from the moment it is filed, and we do not pause grades or redact pages while one is open. The full process, including what each channel is for, what counts as a verifiable source, and the timelines, lives on theContributions page.

Code & data licenses #

Everything defirisk.co publishes is licensed for unrestricted reuse, subject to attribution. We choose permissive licenses deliberately, because a closed-licence risk assessment is mostly a marketing surface.

• Data: all grades, evidence factors, citation lists, and derived datasets are licensed under CC BY 4.0. Attribution to "defirisk.co, rubric vN.N" is sufficient.
• Code: the rubric engine, factor parser, adapter SDK, and site itself are licensed under MIT. Source for everything lives at the canonical repo.
• Rubric definitions: the rubric/ directory (factor predicates, category definitions, critical-factor list) is dual-licensed underCC BY 4.0 and MIT, with attribution to the version tag.

Contact #

To correct a fact or dispute a grade, use theContributions channels.

For coverage requests for new protocols, new chains, and new sectors, submit a public post on X tagging @0x_Abdul with the protocol name, chain, and official handle. Requests submitted publicly are logged and prioritised against the published criteria.

For any other inquiries, DM the X account.