diff --git a/src/handlers/triggerEnrichment.js b/src/handlers/triggerEnrichment.js
index a890bd566c..450cb85cbb 100644
--- a/src/handlers/triggerEnrichment.js
+++ b/src/handlers/triggerEnrichment.js
@@ -375,6 +375,10 @@ const enrich = (pool, days, offsets) => {
 // 3: - more than 1 asset but same underlying assets
 const checkIlRisk = (el) => {
   const l1Token = ['btc', 'eth', 'avax', 'matic', 'eur', 'link', 'sushi'];
+  // tokens that merely CONTAIN an l1Token substring but are NOT correlated with it
+  // (independent governance/utility tokens). Without this, e.g. 'ethfi'.includes('eth')
+  // collapses ETHFI into the ETH family and mislabels ETHFI-ETH pools as ilRisk 'no'.
+  const notCorrelated = ['ethfi', 'sethfi', 'ethdydx', 'ethix'];
   const symbol = el.symbol.toLowerCase();
   const tokens = symbol.split('-');
 
@@ -393,6 +397,7 @@ const checkIlRisk = (el) => {
   } else {
     const elements = [];
     for (const t of tokens) {
+      if (notCorrelated.includes(t)) continue;
       for (const x of l1Token) {
         if (t.includes(x)) {
           elements.push(x);