Seems many DeFi participants (both retail and institutional) are unsure how to assess lending protocol risk when looking for yield onchain and selecting among available protocols. This creates unnecessary panic (granted times of needed panic certainly still exist in DeFi). But to help avoid some of the unnecessary panic scenarios, here is a brief breakdown of a typical 4 step risk assessment most sophisticated DeFi lenders use today, with @felixprotocol Vanilla as an example: Let's assume a panic is breaking out across DeFi, and you want to know whether your funds are safe now + will be safe over the days to come. Some steps: 1- Ensure this isn't a @Morpho protocol exploit as Felix Vanilla is built on Morpho (Morpho audit history here: 2- If interacting with ensure there hasn't been a frontend compromise by using a tx simulator like that available in Rabby Wallet to confirm the contracts you're interacting with (if about to execute a tx) are indeed the official contracts and not a malicious contract you're about to interact with via a frontend exploit 3- Review what vault you're lending to. Was it USDH Frontier? If so, visit and review the collateral markets the USDH Frontier vault is lending to. Has one of these collateral assets been compromised? If no issue with #1#, no issue with #2#, no issue with the collateral markets being supplied to (and not a personal private key leak), your funds are likely safe and the panic is unwarranted. Still good to review exactly what collateral assets you're lending to before submitting a deposit, the utilization of each, and the security of each asset by checking their respective audit reports as well. Just part of DeFi lending DD 4- But if panic is still sweeping across DeFi, and you're concerned utilization of the vault you're lending to is going to remain near 100% due to high withdrawal rates + you need your capital soon, check HyperEVMScan to see recent withdrawal and deposit data. From this, you can assess whether the withdrawals are recurring from many addresses or one whale + the velocity of withdrawals. Example for USDH Frontier vault: The power of Felix Vanilla / Morpho is the risk segmentation available across vaults. A lender to USDH Frontier is not by default exposed to USDT0 Frontier collateral markets. This makes the underwriting process much more straightforward for lenders, looking to avoid the pain of pooled risk. So you can take more aspects of DeFi risk into your control. Feel free to DM if in need of further risk help