New ERC-20 approval to unverified contract from whale

Symbiotic'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 Symbiotic user cannot be assessed without live mempool and explorer monitoring. Symbiotic vaults hold wstETH, cbETH, wBETH, rETH, sUSDe. High-TVL users exist ($472M total). Signal requires real-time mempool monitoring pipeline not available in static assessment.

Sources #

Internal
Symbiotic profile — deployments section.research/protocols/symbiotic/00-profile.md §3 — vault collateral types (wstETH, cbETH, wBETH, rETH, sUSDe)retrieved 2026-05-16
URL
LlamaRisk — Current State of SymbioticLlamaRisk Symbiotic research — collateral compositionretrieved 2026-05-16

Methodology #

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

See the full factor methodology and distribution across all protocols →

rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol symbiotic factor RD-F-096 score gray collected_at 2026-05-16 09:25:24