S&P Global Ratings launches risk assessment framework for onchain lending vaults
S&P Global Ratings introduced a Vault Risk Assessment framework for on-chain lending vaults, adding letter-style scoring across several risk categories. The move lands as deposits in these products are described as having grown to around $10 billion from $1.5 billion two years earlier, and one piece says no vault has been assessed yet.
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Users and vault curators are the groups most directly touched tomorrow morning, because a new published framework now exists for ranking on-chain lending vaults. The practical effect is that the market can be viewed through a common set of risk labels, while one piece also says no vault has been assessed yet, so there is no live score to react to today.
What changes in practice is the addition of a structured scoring layer for vaults, including letter grades from AAA(v) to D(v) and, in one description, a curator cap on the result. What does not change is that the framework is not described as a credit rating, and one piece says the first assessment has not happened yet. (per beincrypto.com)
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