New ERC-20 approval to unverified contract from whale

Liquity V1 + V2 (LUSD / BOLD)'s assessment for RD-F-096 — scored gray on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

New ERC-20 approval to unverified contract from high-TVL user (T-09 phase-2 signal tier). User-level signal requiring live approval monitoring infrastructure. Not directly observable in static assessment. No current alerts from public sources. The signal monitors user-level behavior (whale approvals), not protocol-level state.

Sources #

Docs
03-taxonomy.md Category 6A RD-F-096RD-F-096 taxonomy definition: user-level ERC-20 approval monitoring; requires live approval-scan pipeline against high-TVL user listretrieved 2026-05-16

Methodology #

Detect whether a top-TVL depositor grants a new token approval to an unverified contract that interacts with this protocol.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol liquity factor RD-F-096 score gray collected_at 2026-05-16 10:35:50