Avg attacker reconnaissance time for peer-class protocols
BENQI's assessment for RD-F-163 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
Attacker wallet reconnaissance time benchmark (informational/comparative for BENQI's risk class): Compound-fork / lending-protocol class reconnaissance ranges from near-zero (flash-loan same-block oracle manipulation) to 78 days (USPD-style pre-strike pattern) in the hack database. Euler Finance had ~1 month pre-strike reconnaissance. Ronin-class = near-zero post-signer-change. BENQI has operated 57 months (~4.7 years) from 2021-08-19 with no documented protocol exploit — no in-sample reconnaissance activity has been identified on BENQI specifically. Rekt leaderboard: no entries. DefiLlama hacks: none. Hacksdatabase: no benqi entries (grep-confirmed). Chainalysis CIR partnership (Nov 2023) means team-side monitoring is active. This factor is informational posture; 57-month clean record is the strongest positive signal.
Sources #
- InternalBENQI profile — 57-month clean incident recordrisk-dashboard/.research/protocols/benqi/00-profile.md §10 Known incidents — no protocol exploit found in Rekt, DefiLlama hacks, or hacksdatabase (grep-confirmed)retrieved 2026-05-16
- BENQI DefiLlama TVL — $277.06M, -1.92% 1d, +3.1% 30dhttps://defillama.com/protocol/benqiretrieved 2026-05-16
Methodology #
Report the average number of days of attacker reconnaissance activity before a strike on peer-class protocols (lending/DEX/bridge/perps), sourced from the hack database.
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