Gain

Gain receives a B- risk grade (34/100) from Hindenrank, where lower scores indicate lower risk. A hands-off yield product for users who prefer managed strategies over DIY DeFi. The convenience comes with meaningful trust assumptions — you are relying on vault managers' skill and integrity, and the limited transparency makes it hard to assess your actual risk exposure. The single audit from a smaller firm is below the security standard of leading vault protocols. Consider this higher risk than self-custodied yield strategies. Gain is an onchain capital allocator that deploys your deposited assets across various DeFi protocols to generate yield through actively managed vaults. Instead of picking individual DeFi opportunities yourself, you deposit into a vault and the Gain team manages the allocation strategy. The GAIN token offers automatic rewards distributed based on your holdings. The protocol has been audited by Solidity Finance, and manages over $62M in total deposits.

The key risks identified for Gain are: (1) You are trusting vault managers to make good allocation decisions with your funds (2) Limited transparency on exactly where your funds are deployed and what risks they face (3) If any of the downstream DeFi protocols get hacked, your vault loses money

Gain scores 34/100 across eight risk dimensions: Mechanism Novelty: 5/15, Interaction Severity: 6/20, Oracle Surface: 3/10, Documentation Gaps: 5/10, Track Record: 3/15, Scale Exposure: 3/10, Regulatory Risk: 2/10, Vitality Risk: 7/10. The highest risk area is Vitality Risk at 7/10.

Among 116 rated Yield protocols on Hindenrank, Gain ranks #45 by safety (lowest risk score = safest). Its 34/100 risk score and B- grade place it in the middle tier of Yield protocols.

Gain scores 3/15 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.