Exponent (Core) · authority risk 51/100, moderate

Can one person move the money in Exponent (Core) on Solana? The authority score is 51 / 100 (moderate): a multisig without a real delay, the band where Bybit, WazirX and Radiant sat when they were drained.

In short. The program upgrade authority is a Squads v4 multisig: 3-of-5 voters out of 5 members, with a 10-hour time lock. This is an upper bound: only the program upgrade path is scored, the in-state admin, mint and config authorities are not traced.

Exposure, not intent. The score counts what the keys could do, not what their holders will do, and says nothing about the odds of a loss. Re-read it yourself with a public RPC and curl: how.

Try a fix: drag the sliders Open the live dashboard re-read from the chain every 6 hours; this page is the snapshot of the build

The five readings

admin key60
multisig69
timelock21
price feed100
shared control100

Composite = 40% admin key + 30% multisig + 30% timelock, rounded. Price feed and shared control are read and shown, not folded in.

To move the money: 3 keys, 10 h to react.

Why this score

The program upgrade authority is a Squads v4 multisig: 3-of-5 voters out of 5 members, with a 10-hour time lock. This is an upper bound: only the program upgrade path is scored, the in-state admin, mint and config authorities are not traced.

3-of-5 voters out of 5 members, composite 51

Pushed on-chain 2026-10-10 (first publication of this target). Scored 60 / 69 / 21. The program's upgrade authority is re-read on every run and must equal the offline vault PDA of the named Squads multisig. The time lock was 4 hours when the target was first scored and is 10 hours now (the Watch reported the change).

4 of 6 requirements met

Exit window: a delay with a bypass, or one not ruled out, the time a user has to leave after a harmful change is queued.

If a market used the example policy today (src/ExampleConsumer.sol: revert when stale, 0 under 60, 50% to 80% above): collateral factor 0 (score 51 is under MIN_SAFE_SCORE 60). Cheapest path to decent (60): admin key from 60 to 82, that is a stronger admin setup (admin power spread beyond one key, or checked by others), every other axis unchanged. This is the smallest step into the next band, not a fix for the weakness: the first requirement not met is A confirmed delay before changes apply, no bypass (changes can apply with no waiting time).

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Not assessed for this contract: the money behind one key (no money figure, or no key count); the protocol's total value locked (no DefiLlama match).

Program or account: ExponentnaRg3CQbW6dqQNZKXp7gtZ9DGMp1cwC4HAS7 on the explorer ↗. Score pushed on-chain on 2026-10-13; stale on the oracle when older than 9 days (the watch re-reads it anyway). Read the score yourself: it lives in the account H8EGbx…onMG on Solana Devnet (PDA, seeds ["score", target], program 5Vhi…Yh4W): byte 45 is the composite, bytes 46 to 53 the last update; stale once last_updated + Registry.max_staleness_seconds has passed. The target itself lives on mainnet. The score takes the weakest of every full-power authority path (program upgrade authority, config-account admins, reward or fee authorities); a Squads whose threshold is 1 counts as one key, so a site that reads only the upgrade multisig can show a higher number for the same protocol.

Read on 2026-10-15 18:53 UTC, methodology 0x4f8c4019b9c9e75b…. The score reads the authority path (keys, multisigs, timelocks, roles, price feeds); it does not audit the code for bugs, and it measures exposure, not the chance of being hit (see the backtest in the repository). Dispute this score with evidence, or read this page as JSON.

Read live: admin: Squads 3-of-5 of 5 plain keys; delay: 10 h Squads time lock.
Independent read of the admin: a Squads v4 multisig 3-of-5, native time lock 10 h 2tX7aHkV1r…b9TP via program -> ProgramData BA7Hr3… -> upgrade authority (a program-derived address, off the curve: a Squads vault or a protocol PDA, no key can sign for it directly) -> Squads v4 vault 0 of multisig 51smH7pBDKJDgmVnVks3gMWaPQFfmQ5s4Fc223yHcjuH, consistent with the published admin-key score. Unchanged since 2026-10-10. 5 of 5 members can vote (4 can initiate, 5 can execute). 3 keys collude to act; 3 keys lost and nobody can act. Signers: 5 plain keys. Program last deployed at slot 456483984 on 2026-10-13 (ProgramData; an upgrade moves this slot and the watch says so). No verified build matching the deployed binary (OtterSec: a repository is registered, https://github.com/exponent-finance/exponent-core/tree/a5ffb39ac886e954be641a3411b4626a28cf98c6). (scripts/second_opinion.py: a reader that shares nothing with the scorer, re-run every 6 hours)

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