SommelierMicro-cap

Sommelier receives a C risk grade (43/100) from Hindenrank, where lower scores indicate lower risk. Moderate risk — interesting architecture, but depositors are trusting opaque off-chain models with no way to verify strategy logic before execution A yield platform where you deposit into vault strategies managed by approved strategists using private machine-learning models. It holds $40M in deposits with $15M in funding. Its C+ grade reflects serious opacity risk: the strategy logic runs off-chain and cannot be verified before your money is moved.

The key risks identified for Sommelier are: (1) Strategy decisions are made by private algorithms running outside the blockchain. You cannot see or verify what the strategy will do before it moves your money. A bad model or a bad actor could drain the vault (2) Vault rebalancing crosses a bridge between a Cosmos chain and Ethereum. If that bridge goes down during a market crash, your vault cannot be rebalanced in time and could take heavy losses (3) If a strategist's private key is stolen, the attacker gains the ability to move vault funds into any whitelisted protocol. The validators may approve the move because the transaction looks normal

Sommelier scores 43/100 across eight risk dimensions: Mechanism Novelty: 8/15, Interaction Severity: 10/20, Oracle Surface: 5/10, Documentation Gaps: 3/10, Track Record: 3/15, Scale Exposure: 0/10, Regulatory Risk: 4/10, Vitality Risk: 10/10. The highest risk area is Vitality Risk at 10/10.

Among 112 rated Yield protocols on Hindenrank, Sommelier ranks #91 by safety (lowest risk score = safest). Its 43/100 risk score and C grade place it among the riskier Yield protocols.

Sommelier 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.