Kiln
DAMASCUSStaking Infrastructure · Ethereum · $5B+ staked TVL · 10 contracts
Public risk assessment — scores are produced with the same methodology as monitored protocols
Security Profile
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70
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82
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82
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70
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82
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100
Audit History
Bug Bounty Program
Assessment
Enterprise staking infrastructure with clean track record. Low on-chain complexity helps. Centralized governance (no DAO, D5=50) and limited public audit transparency drag score. Multi-chain adds breadth but contracts are simple per-chain.
Dimension Breakdown
How scores work →- Enterprise-grade staking with institutional controls
- API-based access with key management
- On-chain contracts have admin-controlled whitelisting
- Multi-chain deployment with per-chain access controls
- Fee-based model (percentage of staking rewards)
- No complex DeFi mechanics in core staking
- Validator economics well-understood per chain
- No token-based incentive distortions
- Minimal oracle dependency for pure staking
- Validator performance tracked on-chain natively
- No external price feeds in core protocol
- Clean oracle surface for infrastructure layer
- Operating since 2021, on-chain contracts since ~2022
- No major exploit across any deployment
- Manages $5B+ in staked assets across chains
- Audited but on-chain contract surface is limited
- Z-factor: 0.870 (from 2022)
- Centralized company governance (no DAO)
- Enterprise decision-making, not community-governed
- No governance token or on-chain governance
- Operational decisions made by Kiln team
- No validated adversarial findings — score set to neutral baseline
- Enterprise-grade operational standards
- SOC 2 compliance (institutional requirement)
- 24/7 monitoring for institutional clients
- Multi-chain ops team with on-call rotations
- Multi-chain deployment = per-chain risk accumulation
- Institutional integrations add B2B composition surface
- On-chain contracts are relatively simple per-chain
- Aggregation risk across validator sets
- Member of 1 dependency cluster(s)
- No cross-protocol cascade exposure detected
- Score: 100/100 (higher = more isolated from systemic risk)
- Source: cross_protocol_composition.json dependency analysis
- Standard dependencies per chain
- Multi-chain adds supply chain breadth
- Enterprise deployment practices
- Off-chain infrastructure is significant surface
Risk Drivers
Primary risk factors driving this score, ordered by severity.
Adversarial Risk Signals
Observable security posture indicators. These signals reflect publicly verifiable information and responsible disclosure outcomes. No specific vulnerability details are exposed.
Score History & Verification
Score provenance tracking begins with the next reassessment.
On-Chain Data
- Protocol Slug
- "kiln"
- Oracle
- BRORegistry (Base)
- Evidence
- IPFS (pinned)
- Staleness Threshold
- 24 hours
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