★ Admin = deployer EOA after 7 days
Axelar Network's assessment for RD-F-043 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
AxelarGateway proxy deployed ~January 2022 by Axelar: Deployer (0xa57adce1d2fe72949e4308867d894cd7e7de0ef2). Current gateway governance held by InterchainGovernance + validator-quorum contract. Deployer EOA has no retained gateway admin role 4+ years post-deploy. ITS admin (0x6f24A47Fc8AE5441Eb47EFfC3665e70e69Ac3F05) is the ITS creator/deployer address but this is a separate operational address from the gateway deployer — F043 measures gateway-deployer-EOA retention specifically. ITS EOA centralization is the F027 red finding.
Sources #
- EtherscanAxelarGateway Proxy creation tx — EtherscanAxelarGateway proxy 0x4F4495...D56A5 created by 0xa57adce1d2fe72949e4308867d894cd7e7de0ef2; governance = InterchainGovernance contract (no deployer-EOA retention)retrieved 2026-05-17
Methodology #
Determine whether, at t = deploy+7d, the admin address still equals the deployer EOA with no evidence of transfer to a multisig.
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