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Risks and Audits
Risks entail economic and security problems, like smart contract, oracle and liquidation risks. Security audits are professional assessments on whether the code are safe and correct.
The protocol will be interacting with a number of smart contracts, all of which impose risks. This can be both known and unknown risks that could result in the failure or vulnerability on the smart contracts which could result in assets being locked or lost forever.
Liquidations depend on a live, accurate price feed from oracles. Oracle downtime, incorrect prices, or manipulation can cause wrongful liquidations. Fallback systems, safety switches, and emergency notification systems are in place to mitigate this risk.
The protocol interacts with various bridges to move assets from blockchain to blockchain. While all bridges have been carefully reviewed for their risks and liquidity constraints, risks of bridge hacks and loss of funds cannot be alleviated.
There are three layers to risk mitigation:
- 1.The protocol’s insurance pool takes the first loss.
- 2.The protocol’s treasury as a second loss.
- 3.Should (1) and (2) be depleted, the losses will have to be socialized amongst users.
Note: risk parameters significantly penalize supported protocols that do not have insurance pools or coverage themselves. This implies a de-facto first risk mitigation layer before Fractal protocol gets affected.
Security audits don't eliminate risks fully. Please do not deposit more assets than you can afford to lose.
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