Deprecated contracts still holding value
Axelar Network's assessment for RD-F-166 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
No officially-deprecated Axelar contracts identified holding material value (>$100k). Axelar uses a proxy upgrade pattern retaining stable proxy addresses across implementation upgrades — deprecated implementations leave no residual locked TVL at orphaned addresses. No prior gateway address found that was sunsetted and replaced at a new address with stuck user funds. Mainnet.json shows a single active gateway per chain.
Sources #
- EtherscanAxelarGatewayProxyMultisig on Ethereum MainnetAxelarGatewayProxyMultisig proxy pattern retains same address 0x4F4495... across upgrades; no orphaned deprecated gateway foundretrieved 2026-05-17
- Axelar Contract Deployments — mainnet.jsonAxelar contract deployments mainnet.json — one gateway per chain, no deprecated address entriesretrieved 2026-05-17
Methodology #
Determine whether contracts marked deprecated by a protocol announcement still hold >$100K in assets.
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