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Notional Finance

DAMASCUS

Fixed Rate Lending · Ethereum + Arbitrum · $200M+ TVL · 10 contracts

Confidence 65%Z-Factor 0.79Updated 2026-05-17Public Score

Public risk assessment — scores are produced with the same methodology as monitored protocols

771
BRI Score
3004756508251000

Security Profile

Access Ctrl
75
Economic
70
Oracle
78
Compos.
68
Govern.
60
Maturity
72
Resilience
50
Supply Ch.
80
OpSec
46
Cascade
100
Min
46
Avg
70
Max
100

Audit History

Certora (Formal)
2022-06
Sherlock Competition
2023-01
Code4rena
2022-01

Bug Bounty Program

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Assessment

Specialized fixed-rate lending with unique fCash instrument. V1 issues led to proper V2 redesign (shows learning). Moderate maturity for current version. Novel economics (D2=70) and complexity are the main drags.

Dimension Breakdown

How scores work →
Access Control
Weight 18%72% conf
75
Good
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+19Lending market with admin-controlled parameters
+19fCash (fixed-rate) positions managed through protocol
+19Liquidation permissionless and well-defined
+19V2 had global settlement capability (emergency admin)
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Economic Soundness
Weight 13%68% conf
70
Good
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+18Fixed-rate lending via fCash instrument is novel
+18Interest rate curve and settlement mechanics are complex
+18V1 had economic design issues (migrated to V2 redesign)
+18Prime lending (V3) adds variable-rate with different model
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Oracle Integrity
Weight 13%75% conf
78
Good
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+20Chainlink oracle dependency for collateral pricing
+20fCash valuation uses internal interest rate model
+20Time-dependent valuation adds oracle timing sensitivity
+20Settlement price is critical trust point
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Battle-Tested Maturity
Weight 12%72% conf
72
Good
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+14V1 live 2021, V2 2022, V3 (Prime) 2023
+14V1 had issues leading to redesign (good: learned and fixed)
+14~36 months for V2+, continuous evolution
+14Audited by multiple firms (Sherlock contest, Code4rena)
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Governance & Upgradeability
Weight 10%68% conf
60
Moderate
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+15NOTE token governance with active proposals
+15Governance controls market parameters and listings
+15Timelock on governance actions
+15Moderate participation rate
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Adversarial Resiliencelock
Weight 10%30% conf
50
Concerning
  • No validated adversarial findings — score set to neutral baseline
Operational Security
Weight 10%50% conf
46
Concerning
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-8No branch protection detected
-8No CI/CD pipeline detected
-8Minimal development activity (0 commits/month)
-8Incident response time not available (using commit frequency proxy)
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Compositional Risk
Weight 5%70% conf
68
Moderate
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+17fCash tokens composed in DeFi (limited adoption)
+17Leveraged vault strategy composes external protocols
+17Cross-currency lending creates composition surface
+17More bounded than general lending protocols
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Cascade Exposure
Weight 5%50% conf
100
Excellent
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+50Member of 2 dependency cluster(s)
0No cross-protocol cascade exposure detected
0Score: 100/100 (higher = more isolated from systemic risk)
+50Source: cross_protocol_composition.json dependency analysis
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Supply Chain
Weight 4%78% conf
80
Strong
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+20OpenZeppelin dependencies
+20Standard Solidity stack
+20Verified on Etherscan
+20Moderate dependency complexity
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Risk Drivers

Primary risk factors driving this score, ordered by severity.

Operational Security46
Adversarial Resilience50
Governance & Upgradeability60

Adversarial Risk Signals

Observable security posture indicators. These signals reflect publicly verifiable information and responsible disclosure outcomes. No specific vulnerability details are exposed.

Disclosure HistoryNot Assessed
Remediation VelocityNot Assessed
Bug Bounty ProgramNot Assessed
Audit CoverageNot Assessed
Incident HistoryNot Assessed
Deployed 2021-11-01Z-Factor 0.79010 active dimensionsreceipt_longProvenance Ledger

Score History & Verification

Score provenance tracking begins with the next reassessment.

On-Chain Data

Protocol Slug
"notional"
Oracle
BRORegistry (Base)
Evidence
IPFS (pinned)
Staleness Threshold
24 hours
Read Score
registry.getScore("notional")

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