Team other-protocol involvement history

Circle USYC's assessment for RD-F-113 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

No prior DeFi protocol involvement by any named founder. All prior roles are in TradFi (BofA, DRW trading desk), regulated IoT hardware (Scout Security), enterprise SaaS (Latch), and regulated crypto infrastructure (ZeroHash). No prior rugged DeFi protocol affiliations. REKT news and hacksdatabase return zero results for any named founder or deployer address.

Sources #

URL
Hashnote | AboutHashnote About page listing prior employers of all founders with no DeFi protocol historyretrieved 2026-05-16
Internal
hacksdatabase local grep - no Hashnote or USYC entrieshacksdatabase grep for hashnote and usyc returned zero incident matches confirming no prior rug/exploit affiliationretrieved 2026-05-16

Methodology #

Document current or prior protocol roles for team members (conflicts of interest, prior rugs, prior successful launches).

See the full factor methodology and distribution across all protocols →

rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol circle-usyc factor RD-F-113 score green collected_at 2026-05-15 21:56:43