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Oracle Risk

Assesses oracle dependency — how much the protocol relies on external price feeds, and how vulnerable those feeds are to manipulation or failure.

Max score: 10838 protocols rated

Worst Offenders

Top 20 protocols with the highest oracle risk scores.

#ProtocolOracle Risk ScoreOverall Grade
1KiloEx10 / 10D+
2Loopscale10 / 10C
3RedStone Oracle9 / 10C+
4Kelp DAO8 / 10D
5Hyperliquid8 / 10C-
6Variational8 / 10C-
7WOOFi8 / 10C-
8Flying Tulip8 / 10C-
9Ostium8 / 10C-
10Flare Network8 / 10C
11Parcl8 / 10C+
12Truebit7 / 10D-
13THORChain7 / 10D
14Elixir Protocol7 / 10D
15Aster7 / 10D+
16Tapioca7 / 10D+
17Alpaca Leveraged Yield Farming7 / 10C-
18Thetanuts Finance7 / 10C-
19YieldBlox7 / 10C-
20Zoth Protocol7 / 10C-

Best Performers

Top 10 protocols with the lowest oracle risk scores.

#ProtocolOracle Risk ScoreOverall Grade
1Phoenix0 / 10A-
2Ethereum Name Service0 / 10A-
3Stellar DEX0 / 10B+
4Polkadot0 / 10B+
5Algorand0 / 10B+
6Realms0 / 10B+
7Dash0 / 10B+
8Stellar0 / 10B+
9Paxos Gold0 / 10B+
10Dogecoin0 / 10B+

Score Distribution

How 838 protocols distribute across oracle risk score ranges.

0–3
410
4–5
362
6–8
55
9–10
11

Why Oracle Risk Matters

Oracle failures and manipulations have caused billions in DeFi losses. Protocols with high oracle surface are exposed to flash loan attacks, stale price feeds, and oracle outages.

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