🏛️Legal/Regulatory Risk

Mitigate legal/regulatory risk with this analysis.

Key Risks

Freezing of assets

Centralized stablecoins (USDC, USDT), assets held with custodians (WBTC), and some protocols can be frozen by authorities.

Shutdown of protocol

If a protocol is not fully decentralized but relies on a single team/entity, it can be shut down which can lead to a loss of assets.

Risk Analysis

Item	Weighting (Total of 10)
Freezing	5
Shutdown	5

Is the freezing of deposited assets possible?

• No: 5 points

• Yes: 0 points

Shutdown of protocol

Qualitative assessment of the likeliness of the protocol able to be shut down: 0-5 points