Audit-to-deploy gap

Yearn Finance's assessment for RD-F-006 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

V3 mainnet launched 2024-03-20. ChainSecurity audit signed off 2024-05-02 (43 days after deploy). yAcademy audit 2024-06-01 (73 days after deploy). Audits were completed AFTER mainnet launch — an inverted timeline compared to the factor's intended direction. This represents an audit-after-deploy scenario rather than pre-deploy validation, which is yellow at minimum.

Sources #

GitHub
V3 audit PDFs with date prefixes (post-mainnet-deploy dates)V3 audits directory — 20240502_ChainSecurity and 20240601_YAcademyretrieved 2026-05-16
URL
Binance News — Yearn V3 mainnet launch 2024-03-20V3 mainnet launch announcementretrieved 2026-05-16

Methodology #

Measure the number of days between the audit report sign-off date and the mainnet deploy of the audited bytecode.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol yearn-finance factor RD-F-006 score yellow collected_at 2026-05-16 08:34:32