# DeFi Shield Governance Risk Assessment

> DeFi Shield Governance Risk Assessment is a paid API for AI agents from defi-shield-hazel.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.75/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Assesses governance risk for a DeFi protocol, evaluating factors like token concentration, voting participation, multisig exposure, and decentralization maturity

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://defi-shield-hazel.vercel.app/api/protocol/governance-risk
- Price: $0.75/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/defi-shield-hazel-vercel-app-9af71540
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_538IKXaRxcmOigfCRspHZ

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability defi-shield-hazel-vercel-app-9af71540 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you run a governance risk assessment on the Aave protocol for me — I want to know about voting power concentration, multisig exposure, and how likely it is to be vulnerable to a governance attack?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a structured, quantified governance risk analysis for a DeFi protocol — especially before investing, integrating, or listing a protocol. Prefer this over generic TVL or APY endpoints when the concern is decentralization, governance attack surface, or admin key concentration rather than yield or liquidity.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or unsupported protocol name returns 404 or empty result
- Protocol data unavailable for a given chain returns partial or null scores
- Malformed protocol identifier causes 400 bad request
- Governance data source temporarily unavailable causes 503 timeout
- Low on-chain activity may result in low-confidence scores

## Output

Returns a governance risk score for the specified DeFi protocol along with a breakdown of risk factors such as token holder concentration, voter participation rates, multisig or admin key exposure, and an overall decentralization assessment with actionable risk indicators.

## Example request

```json
{
 "input": {
  "body": {
   "protocol_name": "Aave"
  },
  "type": "http",
  "method": "POST",
  "bodyType": "json"
 }
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "bodyType",
    "body",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {
      "protocol_name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Protocol name for governance analysis"
      }
     }
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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