Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
curve-claims.trade shows high-risk / scam indicators.
| What this site appears to be | A Curve.finance protocol dashboard showing a DEX with swaps, pools, Llamalend lending, governance and a bridge. It displays about $1.33b in total deposits and $58.49m daily volume, with a standard wallet-connect flow and audit and bug-bounty references. No deceptive promises, credential harvesting or brand impersonation were observed in the visible text. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: Not recorded
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | 1 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 26 days oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | Noted |
| Hosted by | ROUTERHOSTINGServer in US | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website is a single-page decentralised-finance dashboard branded "Curve". It presents swaps, liquidity pools, pool creation, Llamalend lending, DAO governance, a cross-chain bridge and analytics. It also shows protocol totals of roughly $1.33 billion in deposits and $58.49 million in daily volume, plus a "Curve Rewards" panel that asks the visitor to connect a wallet to view eligibility. Its apparent purpose is to funnel visitors into wallet connections and on-chain transactions under the identity of an established exchange protocol, from a recently registered domain whose name pairs that brand with the word "claims".
Scam/Impersonation Risk
This is a high-risk assessment driven by a confirmed external blacklist hit. Security engines, including a tier-one vendor, flag the domain as malicious or suspicious, and no offsetting clean reputation exists. The page content itself is not overtly deceptive. It requests no seed phrase, has no login form, and makes no return promises. However, the content is a replica of an established protocol's interface, and the domain name is a brand-plus-"claims" construction. The "Curve Rewards" panel invites eligibility checks through wallet connection, which fits the lure pattern used in reward-claim and wallet-drainer campaigns. The figures shown ($1.33 billion deposits, $58.49 million daily volume, 6.82% crypto volume share) cannot be tied to this domain. They mirror the genuine protocol and lend borrowed credibility to a site whose affiliation with that protocol is unconfirmed. A single abuse report exists against the hosting IP, but it relates to shared provider infrastructure and carries little weight alone. Automated browsing observed no wallet-drainer, clipboard-hijack or hidden-form behaviour. The wallet-connect and transaction-signing stage was not exercised, so the most dangerous interaction point remains untested. No contact-email anomaly was relevant to the evidence supplied.
- Homepage: dashboard text reproduces the Curve navigation (DEX, Llamalend, Governance, Bridge, Analytics), the quoted protocol totals, and a "Connect to view eligibility" rewards prompt.
- Domain provenance: registered 2026-09-24 (~25 days old, 0.07 years), so no track record supports the borrowed brand.
- External reputation: one major engine rates the domain malicious and three more rate it suspicious. This is the decisive negative, and it is not discounted.
- Hosting-IP abuse report: one report against the shared provider IP, discounted as a shared-infrastructure signal.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site claims no licence, registration number or operating entity, and the evidence connects it to no named real-world operator. The homepage footer lists "Legal", "Security", "Audits" and "Bug Bounty" entries. These are generic references that carry no verifiable weight on a domain of unestablished provenance. The listed audits are not evidence that this domain is the audited protocol. The business model (trading fees, lending, bridging, token rewards) involves depositing assets before any service is delivered, which is a critical-risk pattern in its own right. No broker-reputation entry matches the site, and the domain is not recognised in any DeFi protocol directory. The absence of a licence is a verification gap here, not proof of a scam. The seriousness of this assessment rests on the blacklist hit and the unconfirmed brand affiliation.
- Homepage footer: legal, audit and bug-bounty entries are listed but name no operator, licence or jurisdiction.
- Registration: registered through NICENIC International Group Co., Limited, with a one-year term to 2027-09-24.
- Hosting and encryption: served from AS14956 (RouterHosting LLC, US); TLS certificate issued by YE2 (DV), valid to 2026-12-23. DV encryption confirms only that the connection is encrypted, not who runs the site.
- Protocol recognition: the domain does not appear in DeFi protocol directories despite presenting protocol-scale totals.
What to Verify Next
Independently obtain the official Curve web address from the protocol's documentation, its audited repositories or other channels reached without using this site, and compare it character by character with this domain. Confirm through the official announcement channels whether any rewards or claims programme exists, and whether it is hosted on this domain. Any transaction request surfaced by this site should be treated as unreviewed. A wallet owner should never sign an approval without independently decoding what contract it targets. The site's operator should be requested to prove control of the protocol's official accounts before any association is assumed.
- Homepage: the "Curve Rewards" eligibility prompt and the "Accept transaction request in the wallet" message mark where asset-permission risk begins.
- Domain: the brand-plus-"claims" name on a roughly 25-day-old registration is the primary element to check against official sources.
- Footer: the community and documentation links shown on the page should be checked for where they actually lead, not assumed to be official.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high-risk and cautionary. The site's polished, protocol-faithful presentation is outweighed by a confirmed blacklist hit and an affiliation that cannot be established. Its legitimacy is not supported, and the appearance of authenticity should not be read as evidence of it.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site sits behind a mainstream CDN/WAF, with a valid, long-dated DV certificate. This offers modest mitigation of direct exposure and nothing more. The observed address is the only one resolved, and it belongs to a low-cost hosting provider. The origin server is not observable, and edge-only visibility prevents independent hosting verification and can mask rapid content swaps. The young-domain, low-footprint pattern is a heuristic and is not treated as a confirmed finding. Protective infrastructure cannot offset the reputation risk.
Closing Assessment
Interaction should be limited to passive viewing at most. No wallet should be connected, no signature or token approval given, and no funds deposited via this domain. Anyone who already connected a wallet here should review and revoke token approvals and move assets to a fresh wallet. Any genuine Curve activity should be conducted only through an address obtained independently from official sources.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-19 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
3 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, hosting and network, registration and ownership.
01 External reputation
- Several malware engines flagged this domain.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_HIGH
02 Hosting and network
- The domain was registered less than three months ago.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_NEW_DOMAIN_90D - The hosting and network setup shows a moderate level of risk indicators.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_RISK_MED - The domain is young and has almost nothing else set up around it.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_SPARSE_YOUNG_DOMAIN
03 Registration and ownership
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN - Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 172.86.114.109 (RouterHosting LLC, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of curve-claims.trade.
- The request stayed on curve-claims.trade. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-09-24. Noted
- It is hosted on ROUTERHOSTING, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED |
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| Hosting | ROUTERHOSTING - RouterHosting LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 172.86.114.109 |
| Name servers | chris.ns.cloudflare.com, annalise.ns.cloudflare.com |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 1 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-23 |
| Domain age | 0.07 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-24 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 1 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 1 report | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about curve-claims.trade at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.