Purpose and Philosophy

The Staking Rewards DeFi Rating is designed as an open standard to make DeFi products more transparent and safer to navigate and part of the DeFi Risk Alliance.

Our core question is:

What is the risk of losing my position?

We’re only rating how likely you are to lose money, not how good the product is or how high the yield is. A vault or protocol may have excellent audits and a top-tier team, yet the underlying strategy can still expose deposits to elevated loss risk.

Even if:

• the code is audited

• the team is excellent

• the infrastructure is solid

…the strategy or operations themselves (how it invests/borrows/leverages/LPs) can still be risky.

Our goal is to show clearly where the risk lies, so that users, integrators, and institutions can make informed decisions and the ecosystem gains the accountability it currently lacks.