Read this before you act on anything Routescore shows you
Routescore is a non-custodial DeFi decision-support workbench. It helps you score routes, model MEV exposure, stress-test supported holdings, keep a hash-recorded decision journal, and monitor public detector signals. Scenario outputs are modeled, point-in-time, user-controlled, and not investment advice.
DeFi carries risks that are different from, and often larger than, traditional finance. This page is the plain-language summary; nothing on it is investment advice.
1. You are your own custodian
Routescore never holds your assets and never moves them. If you lose your seed phrase, your keys, or sign a malicious transaction, no one — including us — can recover the funds.
2. Smart-contract risk
Every protocol Routescore surfaces is a piece of code. Code can have bugs, can be exploited, and can lose 100% of deposited capital. Audits reduce the risk; they do not eliminate it.
3. MEV and sandwich attacks
Public Ethereum mempool transactions can be front-run, back-run, or sandwiched. Routescore's pre-trade scoring helps you size the exposure, but no score guarantees a transaction will clear unsandwiched.
Refresh requests use supported public detector snapshots. They are not wallet-specific MEV monitoring, real-time wallet alerts, or guaranteed reconstruction of your transaction history.
4. Oracle risk
Most lending and derivatives protocols depend on price oracles. If an oracle is wrong, stuck, or attacked, positions can be liquidated unfairly, or large amounts can be borrowed against bad collateral. See our Oracle dependency map for the current view.
5. Bridge risk
Cross-chain bridges are among the most-attacked DeFi components by total dollars lost. Different bridges have different security models. Routescore surfaces TVL and category; we do not guarantee any bridge's safety.
6. LRT and restaking risk
Liquid restaking tokens add slashing risk on top of Ethereum validator slashing risk. The per-AVS exposure can be correlated across operators.
7. Stablecoin peg risk
A stablecoin's price can deviate from its peg in the short term and, in extreme events, permanently. Routescore surfaces deviation events; we do not predict them.
8. Regulatory risk
DeFi regulation varies by jurisdiction and is changing rapidly. Your local law may restrict the protocols, tokens, or activities Routescore helps you reason about.
9. Operational risk on Routescore itself
Routescore relies on third-party data sources (DefiLlama, Etherscan, Infura, Alchemy, and others). These can be wrong, stale, or down. We surface freshness on every page; check the status page before relying on any number for an action.
10. Nothing here is advice
Routescore provides decision support. Every action you take is your decision. We do not provide investment, legal, tax, or financial advice, and we are not a fiduciary. If you are not sure whether an action is right for you, consult a qualified, independent advisor.