Hypernative Monitoring

Why we use it

Smart contract audits significantly reduce risk, but they are a point-in-time review. After deployment, risk can come from new integrations, changing market conditions, operational mistakes, or novel attack patterns. To add a runtime security layer on top of audits, YieldFi is implementing Hypernative as a real-time monitoring and threat-detection system for our onchain infrastructure.

What we monitor

We configure monitoring around the behaviors that matter for vault safety and user funds, including:

• Contract activity and privileged actions (e.g., role changes, parameter updates, timelock executions).

• Abnormal transaction patterns that may indicate exploitation attempts (unexpected call paths, unusual volumes, rapid repeated interactions, suspicious counterparties).

• Integration risk signals from dependencies that vaults may rely on (e.g., oracle anomalies, protocol incidents, liquidity events), where relevant to a vault’s operation.

• Operational health indicators related to issuance/redemption flows and other critical paths.

Alerting and response workflow

Hypernative alerts are routed to our operators in real time and mapped to internal incident runbooks. Depending on severity, the workflow includes escalation, triage, and predefined actions—such as restricting specific flows, tightening operational limits, or invoking safeguards that exist within the vault’s control framework (wherever supported). The goal is to detect earlier, respond faster, and reduce blast radius.

Scope and limitations

Monitoring does not prevent every loss event, and it does not replace secure engineering, audits, or conservative operations. Alerts can be noisy or incomplete, and automated actions only work when the underlying contracts and procedures support them. We treat Hypernative as an additional defense tool in our armour—an additional layer that improves visibility and response during live operations.