DNS/CDN/frontend hash drift
Yearn Finance's assessment for RD-F-105 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
DNS/frontend hash drift signal. Applicable: yearn.finance and yearn.fi are active production frontends. Historical DNS disruption: a 2023 domain registrar incident took yearn.finance offline (BeInCrypto reported; yearn.fi remained operational). While this was an administrative registrar issue (not a malicious DNS hijack), it demonstrates the DNS surface has been impacted. No active DNS/frontend drift event as of 2026-05-16. Phase-2 signal; not live. Yellow: registrar disruption history plus documented impersonator domain ecosystem elevates posture above green. Signal design: fires on unscheduled hash drift vs last-known-good baseline; suppressed on change-management allowlist entries.
Sources #
- URLBeInCrypto — Yearn Finance domain registrar incidentBeInCrypto: 'Domain Registrar Issue Takes Yearn Finance (YFI) Website Offline' — 2023 yearn.finance registrar incident documented.retrieved 2026-05-16
- Yearn Finance official documentationYearn docs confirms dual-domain operation: yearn.finance (primary) + yearn.fi (backup). Both active as of 2026-05-16.retrieved 2026-05-16
Methodology #
Detect whether the hash of production frontend JS changes versus the prior published hash, or a DNS config change is detected.
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