Social-media impersonation scam spike

Pendle Finance's assessment for RD-F-109 — scored not_assessed on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

v1-deferred signal. Social-media impersonation spike monitoring requires social-media listening vendor. Phishing domain pendle-finance.com (Mar 2024) indicates scam ecosystem activity, but no documented large-scale Discord/Telegram/X impersonation spike of the type this signal targets.

Sources #

Curator note
pendle-finance.com phishing domainv1-deferred per T-09 §3.3; phishing domain exists (Cat 11 F161) but no documented coordinated scam-spikeretrieved 2026-04-29

Methodology #

Detect a sharp uptick in Discord/Telegram/X accounts impersonating the protocol team or announcing fake airdrops.

See the full factor methodology and distribution across all protocols →

rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol pendle factor RD-F-109 score not_assessed collected_at 2026-04-28 21:09:40