Sherlock is excited to announce a long-awaited $10M collaboration with Euler Finance to protect Euler users from smart contract risk starting on the first day of launch. The Sherlock team has worked shoulder-to-shoulder with the talented devs at Euler over the last 3 months to get ready for the much anticipated launch. 

Euler is part of the first cohort of protocols during Sherlock’s guarded launch. Each protocol gets access to $10M in smart contract coverage, a security assessment from top auditors, and a $1M ImmuneFi bug bounty provided by Sherlock. 

Sherlock is a risk management platform built on Ethereum and designed to keep end users protected by providing affordable and scalable coverage to protocols.

Euler’s Security Practices

Sherlock's partnership with Euler is exciting because Euler prioritizes all of the attributes that Sherlock looks for when deciding to cover protocols. As Euler announced, the initial launch is a guarded one specifically to minimize security risk. 

The steps taken to secure Euler include: 

• $1MM ImmuneFi bug bounty provided by Sherlock
• Audits from Solidified, ZK Labs, Halborn, Sherlock, and several other independent security experts
• Formal verification by Certora
• High test coverage
• And of course, the guarded launch

Building a lending protocol in crypto is not an easy task by any means. Since the time Sherlock started working with Euler in September, many more risks have been exposed in lending markets. Cream Finance, one of the most popular lending markets in crypto, was hacked for over $130M and many expressed that Aave and Iron Bank had been vulnerable to the same exploit. Rari Capital’s Fuse markets were hacked last month (here’s a great writeup by the Sherlock Watson who led Euler’s security assessment).

The Euler team’s response to these new vulnerabilities has been nothing short of heroic. Not only was every new exploit angle broken down and assessed, but the team became bleeding edge experts on Uni V3 manipulation and published articles and papers about it. All while continuing to build towards their mainnet launch.

While Euler’s security practices are impressive and Sherlock finds this area extremely interesting, you’re probably wondering what Euler actually does. 

Capital-Efficient, Permissionless Lending

Euler helps users earn interest on their crypto assets or hedge against volatile markets without the need for a trusted third party. This is extremely important and ground-breaking. Permissionless lending is a very new concept and 99.9% of human history has sadly existed without it. No more. Having no trusted third party means that even “centralized” oracles services are done away with, in favor of fully decentralized markets such as Uniswap.

Why is this cool? 

Besides the obvious answer that it means you don’t have to trust third parties, there are some really exciting possibilities that get opened up:

Short-sell anything – A truly efficient market enables betting for and against an asset. This is not currently possible in crypto and opens up a whole new array of investing strategies. 

Use leverage on anything – Euler’s swap module will allow users to put on one-click leveraged long and short positions on any collateral vs collateral asset pairs and one-click leveraged short positions on any collateral vs non-collateral pairs.

Earn interest on anything – Euler allows you to earn interest on any ERC-20 token, no matter how small. 

Liquidity mine anything – Deposit eligible collateral and borrow anything that will result in liquidity mining rewards. By creating a lending market for everything, anyone can tap into farming without selling their high quality assets.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Euler has innovated across every piece of lending markets including reactive interest rates, protected collateral, MEV-resistant liquidations, multi-collateral stability pools, sub-accounts, risk-adjusted loans and much more. 

Keep up with Euler:

• Follow along on Twitter, Discord, Telegram and Medium
• Read the whitepaper
• See how Euler thinks about risks in lending protocols

Keep up with Sherlock:

• Follow along and get involved on Twitter and Discord
• Check out the docs
• Keep an eye out for the V2 in early 2022!

Euler is a great example of the type of security-minded team that Sherlock looks for. We’re excited to watch Euler continue to grow and Sherlock will be there to provide more cover and other services every step of the way.