Yield Farming Checklist: 10 Things to Verify Before You Deposit
A practical due diligence checklist for DeFi yield deposits. Verify contracts, audits, admin controls, oracles, liquidity, yield sources, withdrawal mechanics, concentration, incident history, and your exit plan before putting capital at risk.
PumpSwap on Solana: From Memecoins to AMM, Security Concerns
PumpSwap is the native AMM for pump.fun, with about $253M in TVL and more than $16B in 30-day DEX volume. That scale makes it impossible to ignore, but LP yield on PumpSwap is not the same thing as lending yield or staking yield. It is fee income from extremely volatile memecoin pools, wrapped in migration, liquidity, contract, and governance risk.
Raydium AMM Security Review: Concentrated Liquidity, Admin Keys, and Protocol Risk
Raydium is the deepest AMM on Solana with about $813M in TVL, but it also carries a live exploit in its track record. This is the full security read: the three AMM engines it runs, the audit picture, the December 2022 admin key hack and what it taught, impermanent loss in concentrated positions, fee mechanics, and where control sits today. yieldwire scores it 63, Grade C.
Solstice Protocol Security Review: Basis Trading Risk on Solana
Solstice USX is the largest basis-trading stablecoin on Solana at $523M TVL. This is the full security breakdown: how the delta-neutral trade actually works, where the funding rate can flip against you, the counterparty risk sitting on centralized venues, the two audits, and the scenarios where the basis trade breaks. yieldwire scores it 62, Grade C.
Jito Liquid Staking Security Review: MEV, Validators, and Smart Contract Risk
Jito Liquid Staking holds about $759M in jitoSOL and pays roughly 5.2% by folding MEV into a plain SOL stake. This is the full security read: the SPL stake pool it runs on, the nine plus three audits, how StakeNet picks 400 validators, where TipRouter sends the MEV, and how withdrawals actually clear. yieldwire scores it 83, Grade B.
Kamino Lend Security Review: Audits, Multisig, and Risk Profile
Kamino Lend holds $1.05B in TVL and is the default lender on Solana. This is the full security breakdown: nine audits plus formal verification, the Squads multisig, the Scope oracle stack, how liquidations actually fire, and where the admin keys sit. yieldwire scores it 79, Grade B.
Multisig and Timelock Analysis: Which Solana Protocols Can Rug You
The APY tells you what a protocol pays. It says nothing about who controls the code or how fast they can change it. We pulled the admin controls for the ten biggest Solana DeFi protocols by TVL. Only one has a documented timelock. Here is who holds the keys and how much warning you would get.
Audit Reports Decoded: What Solana DeFi Audits Actually Tell You
58% of Solana DeFi protocols with $1M+ TVL have no public audit. Meanwhile, the two biggest exploits of 2026 hit protocols that were audited. Both facts are true, and both matter. Here is how to read an audit report like an analyst instead of treating it like a checkbox.
TVL Concentration on Solana: When One Protocol Holds Too Much
The fear is that a handful of protocols hold all the money on Solana. The data says otherwise: the top three control 22% of DeFi TVL, and the concentration index sits in unconcentrated territory. The real risk is not who is biggest. It is what they share.
Oracle Risk in DeFi: How Price Feeds Can Break Your Yield
Every lending position, perp, and looping vault on Solana depends on one number it does not produce itself: the price. When the oracle feeding that number lags, breaks, or gets gamed, your yield turns into a liquidation. Here is how oracle risk works and how we score it.
Smart Contract Risk for DeFi Users: What to Check Before You Deposit
Audits alone did not stop the two biggest Solana exploits of 2026. Here is the checklist that would have flagged both, and how to run it in five minutes before you deposit.
Zcash Orchard Bug: AI Found What Cryptographers Missed for 4 Years
A critical vulnerability in Zcash's Orchard shielded pool could have minted unlimited counterfeit ZEC. An AI-assisted audit found it. ZEC dropped over 40%. Here is what happened and what it means for DeFi.
How We Score Risk: Inside yieldwire's Security Methodology
Most yield aggregators show you APY and TVL. We show you whether the protocol behind those numbers has a multisig, a timelock, or a history of exploits. Here's exactly how our security scoring works.