dHEDGE Vaults

dHEDGE Vaults receives a B- risk grade (28/100) from Hindenrank, where lower scores indicate lower risk. Moderate risk — clean 5+ year track record and contract guard system, balanced against multi-protocol composability risk and concentrated governance. dHEDGE is a decentralized asset management protocol that enables users to deposit into tokenized vaults run by portfolio managers, with approximately $24M in total value locked across deployments on Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, Base, and Ethereum. Operating since 2020 with no loss-of-funds incidents, the protocol's B grade reflects solid documentation and a clean security track record, balanced against the inherent risk of multi-protocol composability in vault strategies and the concentration of governance power within the DAO treasury that holds over 60% of DHT supply.

The key risks identified for dHEDGE Vaults are: (1) Vault strategies interact with multiple DeFi protocols including Aave, Velodrome, and 1inch. While dHEDGE's contract guard system restricts which protocols vaults can access, a vulnerability in any integrated protocol could affect depositor funds. (2) Vault managers have discretion to execute strategies within whitelisted parameters, creating a trust relationship between depositors and managers. The protocol mitigates this with contract guards but cannot prevent all poor strategy decisions. (3) The DHT governance token is heavily concentrated, with the DAO treasury holding over 60% of total supply. This means protocol parameter changes are effectively controlled by the core team rather than distributed governance. (4) Multi-chain deployment across five networks increases operational complexity and means each chain's deployment carries independent smart contract risk.

dHEDGE Vaults scores 28/100 across eight risk dimensions: Mechanism Novelty: 0/15, Interaction Severity: 6/20, Oracle Surface: 2/10, Documentation Gaps: 2/10, Track Record: 7/15, Scale Exposure: 3/10, Regulatory Risk: 4/10, Vitality Risk: 4/10. The highest risk area is Track Record at 7/15.

Among 116 rated Yield protocols on Hindenrank, dHEDGE Vaults ranks #17 by safety (lowest risk score = safest). Its 28/100 risk score and B- grade place it among the safer Yield protocols.

dHEDGE Vaults scores 7/15 on the Track Record risk dimension, indicating some history of security incidents or exploits. Higher scores reflect more severe or frequent incidents. Review the full risk report for details.