DeFiPunkd

Live, evidence-based transparency registry for DeFi protocols. An L2BEAT-for-DeFi in spirit.

DeFiPunkd is not a centralized risk-rating system. It is a protocol registry and evidence intake layer: every protocol from DeFiLlama gets a page with raw fields and missingness visible, and per-dimension grades are filled in over time by the DEFI@home pipeline (LLM submissions → quorum → optional human signoff). Tiers gate publication; a tier is a data-readiness signal, not an editorial endorsement.

Audience: DeFi power users, researchers, and auditors who want dense evidence on proxies, multisigs, timelocks, upgradeability, and autonomy — without marketing polish. See spec.md for the full product framing and phase plan.

Not quite a "*beat"

Unlike L2BEAT, WalletBeat, and the other "beat" projects, DeFiPunkd is not human-curated. It is tool-assisted first, with an optional human curation layer that is deliberately minimal and not strictly required. There are thousands of DeFi protocols — hand-curating each one does not scale. The registry starts from DeFiLlama, layers deterministic signals (verifiability, autonomy), and defers judgment calls to a distributed DEFI@home process where any number of independent auditors submit graded assessments and a quorum decides.

DEFI@home — distributed protocol assessment

DeFiPunkd does not run crawlers. Instead, contributors assess protocols by running a pinned prompt through an LLM of their choice (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) and submitting the JSON output as a pull request. A quorum bot merges your submission once ≥3 independent runs agree on grade and overlapping evidence.

The flow:

1. Open any protocol page on the site and click Audit this slice yourself under one of the 5 Risk analysis cards.
2. Copy the generated prompt — it has the snapshot timestamp, chains, GitHub repos, and audit links already pinned in. Paste into your LLM.
3. The LLM returns one JSON object matching data/schema/slice-assessment.v2.json — every claim must cite a verifiable URL (block explorer, repo at a pinned commit SHA, or audit PDF).
4. Click Submit your run. GitHub opens its new-file UI pre-pointed at data/submissions/<slug>/<slice>/ with a JSON stub. Paste your output, commit, open the PR.
5. CI validates the schema within ~30 s; if 2+ contributors agree, the quorum bot opens a follow-up PR merging your assessment into data/assessments/ within 24 h. Disagreements open a per-(slug, slice) aggregation issue instead.

The determinism comes from consensus across re-runs, not from the LLM being deterministic. Every submission records the model used, the prompt version, and the snapshot timestamp — anyone can re-run the same prompt later and the citations should still be re-verifiable. See /contribute on the site for full documentation, and packages/prompts/ for the prompt source.

The full pipeline is live: prompt + schema + submission UX, plus the schema validator (validate-submission.yml), the quorum bot (quorum.yml), an autorun action that runs the pinned prompt as an Anthropic SDK "third voice" so quorum doesn't stall on contributor availability (autorun.yml), and a reconciliation action that promotes assessments into data/master/ (reconcile.yml).

Architecture at a glance

• Git-native. Protocol metadata lives as committed files; the repo is the source of truth. No database. Master-file updates surface within the ISR window (60s) without a redeploy.
• DeFiLlama seeds the universe. pnpm sync fetches https://api.llama.fi/protocols, normalizes the payload, and writes data/defillama-snapshot.json. Curated overlays live in data/overlays/<slug>.json and merge on top.
• Read-only. No submission queue, no auth, no forms. Corrections route to GitHub PRs and issues.
• DEFI@home for assessments. Risk-slice grades are filled in by contributors running pinned LLM prompts and submitting JSON via PR (see above); the quorum bot merges once independent runs agree. No unilateral grading.
• Tier system gates publication. Protocols receive none / bronze (≥1 slice has quorum) / silver (all 5 slices have quorum) / gold (any slice has human signoff). Quorum threshold = 3 independent models. Tiers are a data-readiness signal, not a safety claim. Defiscan stages will be layered over tiers once human review formalizes. Logic in apps/web/src/lib/tier.ts.

Workspace layout

apps/
  web/                       Astro 5 site (the registry UI), one Svelte 5 island
data/
  defillama-snapshot.json    Full DeFiLlama seed (committed)
  overlays/                  Curator overlays (per-slug JSON, committed)
  schema/
    slice-assessment.v2.json JSON Schema for DEFI@home submissions
  submissions/<slug>/<slice>/*.json
                             Raw per-contributor LLM runs (one JSON per run)
  assessments/<slug>/<slice>.json
                             Merged per-slice assessments (quorum bot output)
  master/                    Reconciled master records from assessments
packages/
  registry/                  Snapshot + overlay merge + assessments + typed access
  sync/                      DeFiLlama fetcher / normalizer / carry-forward logic
  prompts/                   DEFI@home prompt generator (preamble + 5 slice bodies)
  validator/                 Schema/quorum/reconcile/priority-queue CLIs
spec.md                      Product spec and phase roadmap

Development

Requirements: Node 22, pnpm 9.

pnpm install
pnpm dev                              # astro dev on :4321
pnpm test                             # vitest, all workspaces
pnpm typecheck                        # astro check + tsc --noEmit
pnpm build                            # production build (all workspaces)
pnpm --filter @defipunkd/web preview   # local preview of the built app

Frontend stack

• Astro 5 (output: "server") owns routing and layouts. Hybrid rendering: landing (/), /methodology, and /contribute are marked prerender = true and emit static HTML at build. /protocol/[slug] is server-rendered on demand and cached at the Vercel edge via ISR (60s expiration) — master-file updates become visible within the window without a redeploy. Configured in apps/web/astro.config.mjs.
• Svelte 5 is used for exactly one interactive island: apps/web/src/components/LandingTable.svelte (tabs, search, tier and pizza-filter chips, sort, row expansion, pagination), mounted with client:load on /. Every other page and component — methodology, protocol detail, chain tabs, pizza chart, footer, delisted template — is a zero-JS .astro component.
• Runtime data access. The Vercel adapter's includeFiles ships data/defillama-snapshot.json, data/overlays/, data/assessments/, data/master/, and data/submissions/ into the serverless function bundle. @defipunkd/registry reads them from process.cwd() at request time.
• Typography via @fontsource-variable/ibm-plex-sans (variable) and @fontsource/ibm-plex-mono (static 400/500; no variable build is published on npm).
• Delisted protocols resolve at /protocol/{slug} and render a normal page with <meta name="robots" content="noindex">, preserving the last-known name, delisted_at, and a DeFiLlama link. No HTTP 410.

Build characteristics

Metric	Value
Pages prerendered at build	3 (landing, /methodology, /contribute)
Pages rendered on demand + ISR-cached	one per /protocol/[slug] (~8000+ live slugs)
ISR expiration	60 s
JS on /	~8.6 KB gzipped (Svelte runtime + LandingTable island)
JS on /methodology and /contribute	0 B
JS on /protocol/{slug}	0 B
Cold-start snapshot parses	1 per serverless function instance (registry singleton)

Refreshing the snapshot

pnpm sync

Pulls api.llama.fi/protocols, re-normalizes, writes data/defillama-snapshot.json, and prints a human-readable TVL diff. Commit the resulting file; merging the PR is the refresh.

Upstream etiquette: sync sends User-Agent: defipunkd (+<contact>). The intended path is the scheduled .github/workflows/sync.yml action (weekly, Monday 06:00 UTC) which runs pnpm sync and opens a PR with the diff as the body. Run pnpm sync locally only as an ad-hoc escape hatch; do not hammer the API from CI or cron jobs outside this workflow.

Curating a protocol

Overlay a DeFiLlama slug with a file at data/overlays/<slug>.json. Keys present in the overlay override the snapshot; keys absent defer to DeFiLlama. Commit and open a PR.

See packages/registry/src/overlay-schema.ts for the accepted shape and packages/registry/src/merge.ts for the three-state precedence rules.

Corrections and takedowns

Open a GitHub issue or PR. The repo is the review surface — no contact form by design.

Design

Visual direction: radiographic — clinical, monochrome, evidentiary. One typeface (IBM Plex), muted neutrals with surgical accent colors that each carry a single meaning (link, verified-onchain, contradiction). Density over breathing room. See .impeccable.md for the full design context.

License

MIT. The Defiscan rubric is adapted with attribution.