Quantstamp reviewed Arkis on 12 Jan 2024: 17 findings, 0 critical; 13 marked fixed, 4 acknowledged.
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| Severity | Open | Acknowledged | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| High | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Medium | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Low | 0 | 2 | 10 |
When `withdraw()` is called, the pool may lack the liquidity for a Liquidity Provider to withdraw their position. In this case, their position is deleted after tallying their debt in a queue. Positions are repaid as rewards are distributed via `returnAndDistribute()`. While a perfect liquidation mechanism could guarantee that all positions are eventually repaid, liquidity providers are not guaranteed to receive their withdrawals within any clear time horizon. In the meantime, they no longer accumulate rewards, resulting in providing an interest-free loan to the protocol.
We would like to emphasize that Arkis is a centralized protocol by design. Users should be aware that a compromised protocol admin would have the power to reroute funds by: 1. Liquidating any Margin Account at any time, regardless of position health. 2. Draining all Arkis liquidity pools.
The `AbstractValidator.getOperator()` function validates the status of the operator defined by the last word (32 bytes) of `msg.data`. However, the same `msg.data` is used to form a command and call a function. Hence, the message data is overloaded as it needs to specify both a function and an operator. This could accidentally send incorrect msg.data. Though extraneous `msg.data` is usually discarded, if the final argument of a function is a bytes array, the operator's address may be included as a function argument.
Currently, block builders and validators can collude to guarantee multiple blocks in a row. If such collusion were to occur it would be possible for these miners to artificially inflate token volume without taking any risk by making a very large deposit at the first block and then a withdrawal at the last block, while censoring any Arkis-related transactions in between. As such they can benefit from an inflated token volume without assuming any of the risk normally associated with lending out tokens.
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