Keep3r Network
Last changed 2026-11-01 · Fact-check review — Fact-check review (verdict: revise): the reviewer checked the page's claims against its sources; the trust score was recalculated from the page's findings, 58 → 68. Version history →
Why this score
| Every page starts at | 65 |
| Concerns that are not fraud | -12.4 |
| Incidents it suffered (e.g. hacks) | -6 |
| Problems around it, caused by others | -1.8 |
| Long-running | +8 |
| Regulated | +5 |
| Sum | 58 |
- 1 section set aside: the claims did not hold up in a fact-check, pending correction.
Score: 68/100 (kept between 0 and 100)
How scoring works →Page reliability: Fact-checked 2026-11-01 · 4 of 9 claims confirmed · 4 need better sources · 1 out of date
anchored·4ju6EW…q6ihSummary
Keep3r Network (KP3R) is a decentralized keeper-job matching protocol launched in October 2020 by Andre Cronje, the creator of Yearn Finance. The protocol has experienced multiple security incidents including a $211k exploit in June 2023, a latent two-year-old vulnerability in its GaugeProxyV2 contract discovered in September 2022, and its oracle was implicated in the $15.6M Inverse Finance hack of April 2022. ZachXBT has flagged the protocol in the context of broader DeFi security concerns, and the project has been surrounded by scam forks, impersonator accounts, and fraudulent staking services operated by unaffiliated parties.
Connected Entities
7 entities · 60 linked investigations- Pickle Finance→mentioned with→Uniswap(60%)
- Yearn Finance→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
- Pickle Finance→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
- SushiSwap→mentioned with→Ethereum(60%)
- SushiSwap→mentioned with→Uniswap(70%)
- Uniswap→mentioned with→Ethereum(80%)
- Uniswap→mentioned with→SushiSwap(60%)
- Inverse Finance→mentioned with→Ethereum(75%)
- Inverse Finance→mentioned with→SushiSwap(65%)
- Keep3r Network→mentioned with→Yearn Finance(80%)
- + 8 more
Timeline(11 events)
28 October 2020
Andre Cronje launches Keep3r Network v1 via a Medium post; no formal announcement, no token sale, no team allocation. KP3R token lists on Uniswap.
Andre Cronje on Medium28 October 2020
KP3R token price surges from ~$1 to over $2,000 within hours on Uniswap, driven by speculative demand tied to Cronje's reputation, before crashing sharply as Cronje redeployed contracts.
CoinTelegraph31 October 2020
Unauthorized KP3R fork KPER is rug-pulled within 24 hours of launch; developer mints 10 million tokens and drains approximately 1,837 ETH (~$623k) from the Uniswap pool.
CryptoSlate2021
SEC begins sending investigative letters to Andre Cronje requesting information about Yearn Finance and, subsequently, Keep3r Network's operational mechanics.
CryptoSlateJune 2021
Fraudulent staking service stKeep3r operates under the Twitter account @kp3r_network, impersonating the official Keep3r project and offering approximately 1% daily returns on staked ETH and KP3R — a Ponzi-like structure. At least one user reports losing funds.
Yearn Finance Governance Forum2 April 2022
Inverse Finance exploited for $15.6 million. The attacker manipulates the Keep3rV2Oracle TWAP oracle, exploiting a time-window validation flaw to inflate the INV token price and borrow against inflated collateral.
CoinDeskMarch 2022
Andre Cronje announces his departure from DeFi, later revealed to be driven in part by two years of SEC investigative correspondence. All of his affiliated protocols, including Keep3r Network, are impacted by community uncertainty.
Crypto BriefingSeptember 2022
Security firm Statemind discloses a critical two-year-old vulnerability in Keep3r Network's GaugeProxyV2 contract that could allow manipulation of governance voting weights. No funds were lost. Five other DeFi protocols were also affected.
PR Newswire2 June 2023
An attacker begins positioning for the June 2023 exploit by adding liquidity to a targeted Keep3r v1 job whose governance is controlled by a compromised vanity address.
DAO Times12 June 2023
Attacker seizes governance of the vanity address job, manipulates the Sushi LP pool, and calls applyCreditsToJob to extract 4,084 KP3R (~$211k). Keep3r team publishes a post-mortem.
DAO Times2025
Andre Cronje publicly reveals for the first time that SEC regulatory pressure was a central reason for his 2022 DeFi exit, providing previously undisclosed context about the investigation.
CryptoSlateDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (5 decisions). 18 of 20 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-5
generated: 5/4/2026, 2:54:41 AM
last updated: 11/1/2026, 11:29:32 PM
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