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Spark

Lending · Sky familySky sub-protocol. SparkLend and sUSDS.

$3.41B
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ETH $3,420 ▲1.2%SPK $0.067 ▲1.0%
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AI review

AI

AI assessment

updated 4h ago·Claude (preview)·preview

Spark is a lending protocol in the Sky family. 9 of 16 risk feeds in the registry report on it. 1 sourced incident on record. No material change has been detected in the current window.

  • Governance: Sky (Maker) governance → Spark SubDAO (SparkLend is an Aave v3 fork) governance
  • 9 of 16 feeds report on Spark. coverage
  • Most recent recorded event: Kelp rsETH bridge exploit — markets paused. incident

AI-generated summary of facts already in this registry — not a Rails assessment, not a risk score, and not a ranking. Per the project charter, the registry never produces its own composite risk judgement. Verify every point against the linked sources below. This is an illustrative preview of a proposed feature; the content is not live.

Feeds

Feed coverage8 covered · 1 partial · 7 not yet covered of 16

How feeds see it

Rating
4 / 0
Dashboard
3 / 1
Monitoring
1 / 0
Research

Seen through 3 of 4 methodology lenses (rating, dashboard, monitoring). A neutral view of who is looking and how — not a risk judgement.

DeFiScan
Rating
Covered

Governed via Sky/Spark proxy; loss-of-funds upgrades lack a ≥7-day exit window or sufficient Security Council.

Stage 0verified
View source
BlockAnalitica
Dashboard
Covered

On-chain risk dashboard for SparkLend markets: rates, liquidations, collateral exposure.

Live dashboardverified
View source
DeFiPunk'd
Rating
Covered

5-dimension AI-consensus (Control / Exit / Autonomy / Open Access / Verifiability); spot-check pending.

Bronze tiersample
View source
Credora
Rating
Covered

Per-vault credit ratings on Spark Savings Vaults (e.g. Savings USDS A-, Staked USDS B+) with probability-of-significant-loss.

A to B+verified
View source
Philidor Analytics
Rating
Covered

Deterministic vault scores; e.g. sUSDS 8.38, Spark wstETH 8.71.

Prime (8.4–8.7 / 10)verified
View source
pigi.finance
Dashboard
Covered

Vault analytics and risk-adjusted yield across 50+ protocols; exploits, concentration, risk-adjusted APY. Paid structured API.

View source
DeFi Saver
Monitoring
Covered

Position-management tooling: live loan-health / safety-ratio tracking and automated liquidation protection for leveraged positions.

View source
Zyfai Risk
Dashboard
Covered

Live per-pool risk grade (TVL/APY stability, liquidity, Lindy checks).

Excellent (6/6)verified
View source
CuratorWatch
Dashboard
Partial

Vault-level risk monitoring for Morpho curators: allocation risk and curator behavior.

View source
LlamaRisk
Research
Not yet covered

Protocol risk research and parameter recommendations; collateral and governance risk.

Xerberus
Rating
Not yet covered

Independent risk rating for DeFi vaults; 300+ subscores across 85+ mechanisms. Open-source.

Anticapture
Research
Not yet covered

DAO governance-capture risk: delegate/voting-power concentration, cost-to-attack vs. treasury value, and proposal/power-shift monitoring across major DAOs. Open-source.

Exponential DeFi
Rating
Not yet covered

Risk ratings (A–F) decomposed into protocol, asset, chain, and pool risk across DeFi yield pools. Open whitepaper methodology. (Standalone product migrated into YO Protocol in 2026 — ratings shown are pre-migration samples.)

DeFi Safety
Rating
Not yet covered

Process Quality Reviews (PQR): documentation, testing, audits, and admin-key practices scored 0–100. Transparency-of-process, not market risk.

Gauntlet
Research
Not yet covered

Agent-based economic simulation: insolvency prevention, parameter optimization, and risk-scenario analysis for lending markets.

Chaos Labs
Dashboard
Not yet covered

Edge risk oracles and economic-risk dashboards: real-time parameter automation and scenario stress for lending markets (active on Aave, GMX, Pendle).

Governance

Governance at a glance

Governance
DAO (Sky / Maker)
Core contracts
Upgradeable
Pause capability
Yes

Structural facts, distilled from the sourced control records below — neutral capabilities, not a risk score.

Governance
Sky (Maker) governance → Spark SubDAO (SparkLend is an Aave v3 fork)verified
Upgradeability
Upgradeable Pool proxy (0xC13e…E987); impl set via PoolAddressesProvider (0x02C3…93eE)on-chain
Admin control
Owner = Spark SubDAO Proxy (0x3300…f8c4), governed by the Sky MCD Chiefverified
Timelock
Sky GSM pause-proxy delay (MCD_PAUSE_PROXY 0xBE8E…98FB)verified

Incidents

2026-04-18Kelp rsETH bridge exploit — markets pausedverified

SparkLend paused its rsETH markets in the same window as the Kelp DAO rsETH exploit. It subsequently saw large deposit inflows as users rotated out of affected venues.

Material risk events, presented verbatim from cited sources — not a Rails assessment.

Audits

AuditorDateScope
ChainSecuritySparkLend Core Updates (Spark-specific changes on Aave v3)Report
ChainSecuritySparkLend Advanced (capped/fixed-price oracles)Report
ChainSecuritySparkLend Cap AutomatorReport

Representative public audits, attributed and linked to source — not a Rails assessment, and not a completeness or safety guarantee.