How to read a KYP dashboard

Each protocol on KYP has a dashboard at /protocols/<slug> and a long-form analysis at /reports/<slug>/.... The dashboard is for triage; the long-form is for reading. This note is a quick pass on the dashboard.

The hero strip — 30-second scan

Four KPI tiles sit at the top: Deal Breaker Gate, Score, Risk Level, Re-check Cadence. The gate is the first signal:

• PASS — no deal-breaker conditions triggered
• CONDITIONAL — passed with material caveats
• WATCHLIST — open concerns that warrant monitoring
• FAIL — one or more deal breakers triggered
• INCONCLUSIVE — assessment incomplete

Below the tiles, a chip strip shows quick counts: deal-breaker FAILs, open issues (with a P0 sub-pill), EOA surfaces, contracts, audits (with a Tier-1 sub-pill).

Trust Surfaces — who can move funds

The most important table on the page. Each row is a power on a contract that, if abused, affects user funds. Columns: surface, controller, controller type, minimum delay, worst case.

What to look for:

• EOA controllers with Instant delay — these are single-key trust surfaces. Compromise = instant fund loss.
• Timelock controllers — abuse requires waiting through the public delay window.
• Multisig N/M — multiple signers, but read carefully if the M is small relative to N.

Audit Tiers

Tier 1 (Trail of Bits, OpenZeppelin, Certora, Spearbit, Sigma Prime, Cantina) typically does deep formal-verification or multi-week reviews. Tier 2 (Three Sigma, Halborn, Quantstamp, ChainSecurity, Code4rena contests) is standard manual review. Tier 3 covers smaller and independent firms. Tier alone is not a verdict — read the actual report.

The long-form

The long-form analysis at /reports/<slug>/... is the comprehensive report — narrative findings with evidence, full deal-breaker matrix, trust matrix, contract inventory, audit history, and aggravating factors. Read it when you want depth on one protocol.

The dashboard is the index. The long-form is the document.