Verdict
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
snapshots-pendlefinance-102.pages.dev is low-trust and potentially risky.
| What this site appears to be | Pendle is a DeFi yield-trading protocol offering yield tokenisation, a yield-trading AMM and vePENDLE staking, deployed on Ethereum, Arbitrum, BNB Chain and Optimism. The page lists third-party audits, reports TVL and trading volume, and promotes a Season 2 airdrop eligibility check. |
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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, 0 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 11 days oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 20261 snapshot | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Governance Risk.
- Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2026.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website presents itself as the landing page of Pendle, a DeFi yield-trading protocol, but it is served from a Cloudflare Pages subdomain whose hostname embeds "pendle finance" rather than from a project-owned domain. The homepage offers yield tokenisation, a yield-trading AMM, vePENDLE token-locking, "Fixed Yield for Everyone" and "Control Your Yield" product entry points, and a "Pendle Season 2 Airdrop" eligibility check. It also has "Launch App" buttons for Ethereum, Arbitrum, BNB Chain and Optimism. Its apparent business model is fee income from trading yield and principal components of yield-bearing assets, together with a token-staking mechanism.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No confirmed contradictions were observed. There are no conflicting legal identities and no confirmed phishing or impersonation findings. No confirmed third-party listing of the hostname as malicious was found. The homepage content reads as coherent and is consistent with an established protocol, and the behavioural tests showed no wallet-drainer, clipboard-hijack, hidden-form or cloaking activity. The caution is one of provenance. The page presents established-protocol content on a free-hosting subdomain that was created only days ago. That content includes a claimed total value locked of roughly $3.86 billion, about $16.0 billion in cumulative trading volume, and a named audit roster (Ackee Blockchain, Dedaub, Dingbats and three contest-ranked auditors). Nothing observed independently ties that subdomain to the real Pendle project. This hostname is not matched to a recognised DeFi protocol listing, and the audit and "trusted by" logos are unverifiable assertions on the page. The "Check Eligibility" airdrop prompt and the four "Launch App" entry points are the typical mechanisms through which lookalike pages steer visitors into wallet connections and token approvals. The page does not explain how airdrop allocations were calculated. One third-party reputation source also flagged the hostname as malicious. This is a single soft third-party warning. It is not a confirmed listing, and no other source corroborates it. For that reason it is given limited weight against otherwise clean behavioural indicators. It remains a visible reputation note and is not dismissed.
- Domain registration is about 11 days old (registered 2026, roughly 0.03 years), a very recent origin set against the established-protocol claims on the homepage.
- The web archive holds 1 snapshot, captured 2026-10-09, with 1 year tracked, so there is no historical continuity behind the content.
- The homepage shows a "Check Eligibility" Season 2 airdrop call to action, with no explanation of the allocation method.
- The homepage's "Trusted by 1inch, LayerZero", "Trusted by Ethereum, ChainLink" and "Trusted by LooksRare, Alpaca" captions beside the audit links cannot be corroborated from the page.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site publishes no legal entity name, licence, registration number or regulatory disclosure, and the homepage lacks terms, privacy or about content that would let a visitor identify an operator. The material it does describe, such as yield products, fee structures and trading of yield-bearing assets, normally warrants risk and jurisdiction disclosures. The page states no fee levels and no yield-trading risk warnings, and it mentions no regulatory context. Real-world operator identity remains unverified, so any claim on the page to be the official protocol should be treated as unconfirmed. No third-party broker or regulatory-database record was matched for this hostname. This is a verification gap, not evidence of wrongdoing.
- The homepage names no operator, company, licence authority or registration number.
- The page lacks stated fee levels and risk disclosures for its yield-trading and token-locking products.
- Served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US), with a DV TLS certificate issued by YE1 and valid to 2027-01-04.
- No broker-intelligence match exists for this hostname.
What to Verify Next
The first step is to confirm, through an independent route, the official web address of the real Pendle project. Suitable routes are the project's verified social channels or a bookmarked source established before visiting this page. That address should then be compared with this subdomain. Any airdrop or eligibility claim should be checked only on the official site or in the project's official announcements, and not through this page. The audit reports and the "trusted by" assertions should be matched against the auditors' own published material. The project's documented contract addresses should be checked against any addresses this page asks a wallet to interact with. The official support and contact channels should also be confirmed independently.
- The hostname embeds the brand name but sits on a shared hosting platform's subdomain space.
- The homepage's "Docs", "Education", "Github" and community links should be compared with the official project's own listings.
- The total value locked and trading-volume figures on the homepage are self-reported and uncorroborated.
Summary Verdict
The site is assessed as low trust, with a cautious posture. The content is polished and internally consistent, and the behavioural tests were clean. However, the assessment rests on how recently the property appeared, on the absence of any independent link to the real project, and on a single uncorroborated soft third-party warning. High-value financial interaction through the site is not supported by the current evidence. The picture is one of unresolved provenance, not demonstrated malice.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, and all observed addresses are CDN edge nodes, so the true hosting origin is not visible. The TLS certificate is valid and issued by a known authority. These are mitigating factors only. They show competent delivery infrastructure but say nothing about who operates the content, and they cannot offset the provenance concern or the soft reputation warning.
Closing Assessment
Treat this page as unconfirmed until its connection to the official project is established through an independent channel. Wallet connections, token approvals and deposits should wait until that confirmation, and the project should be reached through an independently confirmed official address.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-20 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
4 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by hosting and network, history in the web archive, page content, behaviour in a sandbox.
01 Hosting and network
- The domain was registered less than three months ago.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_NEW_DOMAIN_90D
02 History in the web archive
- The web archive has almost no record of this domain, which fits a site that is new.History in the web archive
rule:ARCH_PEN_YOUNG_AND_SPARSE
03 Page content
- The page appears to present itself as a known brand it is not verified to belong to.Page content
rule:PAGE_BRAND_SUSPECTED - The page has no description for search engines, which established sites usually provide.Page content
rule:PAGE_SEO_MISSING_META
04 Behaviour in a sandbox
- The page sent data to other domains many times while it was open.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_POSTS_HEAVY
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 55/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 60% |
- 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 snapshots-pendlefinance-102.pages.dev.
- The request stayed on snapshots-pendlefinance-102.pages.dev. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-10-09. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:310c::ac42:2d0e |
| Name servers | Not available |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 4 |
| Edge IP addresses | 4 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-04 |
| Domain age | 0.03 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2026-10-09 |
| Archive snapshots | 1 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 1 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about snapshots-pendlefinance-102.pages.dev 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.