Risk
Depositing into Yearn Degen USDC means underwriting risks you usually can't see: how much you could lose, whether you'd get out in time, and what would cover it.
Left to right, a deeper collateral crash. Hover any point for the scenarios that drive the loss — only a smart-contract bug reaches a total loss.
Collateral & oracles
Each token you're exposed to, and the market it backs. If that market breaks, this is how much the vault loses, in dollars and as a share of the vault. Open a row for the price feed, stress curve, and supply-cap detail. Below, the oracles those prices depend on and what is at stake if one is compromised.
Driven by vbWBTC $178,364 · vbETH $40,237 · siUSD $446.5 · other < $0.0001 · −100% $1.19m modeled all-to-zero bad-debt ceiling
vbWBTCMarketChainlink$958,70665% of vault · bad debtOracle exposure $226,046$1.18m80% of vault$958,70665% of vault$226,046separate path
vbWBTC uses Chainlink market-rate aggregator feed(s).
- → vbUSDC86% LLTV0xb60f…040eChainlink
vbETHMarketChainlink$216,27515% of vault · bad debtOracle exposure $60,631$276,90619% of vault$216,27515% of vault$60,631separate path
vbETH uses Chainlink market-rate aggregator feed(s).
- → vbUSDC86% LLTV0xd423…bf47Chainlink
avKATHybridChainlink$9,2460.6% of vault · bad debtOracle exposure $1,977$11,2220.8% of vault$9,2460.6% of vault$1,977separate path
avKAT is priced from an exchange-rate/NAV leg rather than a direct market-rate feed.
- → vbUSDC63% LLTV0xe8ba…d981Chainlink
siUSDMarketChainlink$2,4000.2% of vault · bad debtOracle exposure $266.47$2,6660.2% of vault$2,4000.2% of vault$266.47separate path
Priced off live market data — a depeg moves the price and can liquidate positions.
- → vbUSDC86% LLTV0x0483…0837Chainlink
KATMarketChainlink$610.35<0.1% of vault · bad debtOracle exposure $66.67$677.02<0.1% of vault$610.35<0.1% of vault$66.67separate path
Priced off live market data — a depeg moves the price and can liquidate positions.
- → vbUSDC63% LLTV0xf436…8800Chainlink
+2 markets with no current position
Oracle dependencies
1 feed · 1 control pointUp to$288,987drainable if these feeds are mispriced · 20% of vault
Each price traces to a feed and the on-chain admin that can move it. Compromise either to misprice the collateral and borrow against it. Per-row amounts overlap and are not summed.
- Chainlink / RedStone·a 4/9 Safe multisigprices siUSD, stcUSD, KAT, vbWBTC, avKAT, weETH, vbETH0x0787…3334$288,987 · 20% of vaultdrainable if it is compromised
How you could lose money
Each row is a distinct failure. Possible loss is the share of your deposit at the selected collateral drop; Worst case is the ceiling if everything goes wrong — a conditional loss if it happens, not a likelihood. Price-scaling rows move with the drop selector; the rest are fixed. Enter a deposit to see the dollar figures as your own. Open a row for conditions, mitigations, and the math.
| Full-deposit & protocol-level(2) | |||||
| 100% | $1.48m | Full deposit | Instant | ||
| 15% | $219,048 | up to $1.19m | Instant | ||
| Price-driven collateral stress(1) | |||||
| 15% | $219,048 | up to $1.19m | Instant | ||
| Oracle & liquidation failures(5) | |||||
| 15% | $219,048 | up to $1.19m | Instant | ||
| 15% | $219,048 | up to $1.19m | Instant | ||
| 15% | $219,048 | up to $1.18m | Instant | ||
| — | — | up to $288,987 | Instant | ||
| 0% | $0 | up to $9,246 | Instant | ||
| Vault role & allocator(3) | |||||
| — | — | Full deposit | 3 days | ||
| — | — | Full deposit | Instant | ||
| — | — | up to $738,112 | 3 days | ||
Who you're trusting
The people and processes that can change this protocol under you.
The roles that can actually move your deposit — the real principal-loss path.
Role timelock 3 days to exit before owner/curator actions land
Sentinels1 · 1 multisigSafety role · veto only
Safety role, not an attack role: can revoke ANY pending timelocked curator change, instantly cut caps, and pull funds from adapters back to idle. Strictly risk-reducing — a captured sentinel cannot introduce new risk.
- 3-of-5 multisig0xe6ad…7162
Allocators2 · 2 EOAsReaches deposit · instant
Moves funds between markets the curator has ALREADY approved — instantly, with NO timelock and no exit window. Cannot reach a brand-new market, but can concentrate you into an approved-but-stressed market or order withdrawals so you hit weak liquidity first.
- single key (EOA)0x50b7…a8fa
- single key (EOA)0x75a1…780d
- Certora· 15 Dec, 2025report
- Blackthorn· 4 Dec, 2025report
- Spearbit· 4 Dec, 2025report
- Blackthorn· 15 Sep, 2025report
Protocol-wide governance: bounded context, not the path to your deposit.
Every Morpho Blue market chooses an immutable oracle contract at creation; implementations can be Chainlink-like, exchange-rate, fixed-price, or custom. Failure modes: attacker-favourable price feed (covered in market-oracle-compromise) or price() revert / staleness blocking liquidations (covered in oracle-liveness-or-malfunction).
No quantified loss scenario references this dependency directly.