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Oracle Manipulation Risk Report: Rocket Pool

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Oracle Manipulation Risk Report: Rocket Pool

Target Protocol: Rocket Pool (TVL: $1299.7M)

Technical Security & Oracle Manipulation Risk Report: Rocket Pool

Target Protocol: Rocket Pool (rETH)

Scope: Oracle Architecture, Price Feed Integration Risks, and Attack Vector Analysis

Document Class: Defensive Risk Assessment & Audit Summary

1. Executive Summary

Rocket Pool is a decentralized Ethereum liquid staking protocol. Its native Liquid Staking Token (LST), rETH, represents fractional ownership of the protocol’s total ETH backing, accrued staking rewards, and incurred penalties.

Unlike rebasing tokens (e.g., stETH), rETH is a value-accruing token whose exchange rate relative to ETH increases over time as staking rewards accumulate. The protocol relies on an off-chain/on-chain hybrid oracle mechanism managed by the Oracle DAO (oDAO) to periodically update the official on-chain exchange rate.

This report evaluates potential oracle manipulation vectors affecting Rocket Pool directly and downstream protocols integrating rETH as collateral or liquidity.

2. Protocol Oracle Architecture

Rocket Pool’s price mechanics operate on two primary layers:

  1. Intrinsic Fair-Value Rate (RocketTokenRETH Contract):

    • Calculated as: $\text{rETH Rate} = \frac{\text{Total ETH Backing}}{\text{Total rETH Supply}}$
    • Updated periodically by the Oracle DAO (oDAO) via consensus (requiring a supermajority threshold of signed balance reports).

  2. Secondary Market Rate (DEXs / External Oracles):

    • Automated Market Makers (e.g., Curve rETH/ETH, Uniswap v3 pools).
    • External aggregated feeds (e.g., Chainlink r

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