---
title: "Is velodrome.info a Scam? Trust Score 0/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "velodrome.info"
verdict: "Critical Risk"
title: "Is Velodrome a scam? velodrome.info trust score 0/100"
trust_score: 0
classification_confidence: 75
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/velodrome.info
assessed: 2026-10-29
---

# Is Velodrome a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment of velodrome.info: 0/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 0/100.** velodrome.info shows high-risk / scam indicators.

This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.

Labels: Sensitive Interaction Risk, Governance Risk

Assessed 2026-10-29 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 75%.

## 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.

| Check | Result | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Malware engines | 4 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk |
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidence (AbuseIPDB, 0 reports; shared hosting inflates reports) | Clear |
| Domain age | 5 months old (Most scam domains are under a year old) | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 2003 (62 snapshots) | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YE2) | Noted |

## The page as captured


![Screenshot of the velodrome.info homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/velodrome.info/screenshots/first.png)

_What velodrome.info served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-10-29. The page may look different now._

## Key findings


- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2003.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.

## Full analysis


### Security Alert

Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.

The website at velodrome.info is a single-page landing site whose title reads "Velodrome on Optimist – The Velodrome is here". It borrows the name of a decentralized-finance trading protocol and presents a short promotional message of roughly five hundred characters. It shows no visible product mechanics, figures or documentation, so its apparent purpose is to act as an entry point for a DeFi-style trading or liquidity service, though that cannot be confirmed from the page content.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

This domain carries **confirmed adverse external reputation**. Multiple independent security engines classify it as malicious or suspicious, and at least one tier-one security vendor flags it. This is a confirmed blacklisting, and it is the decisive factor in the assessment. The domain is also absent from public DeFi protocol directories, even though the homepage title trades on the name of an established DeFi protocol. That gap matters because a site using a recognisable protocol brand without being registered as that protocol's presence is a classic lure pattern. No second legal-entity name or conflicting identity was observed, and the page does not explicitly claim a known institution's identity, so this is a reputational and brand-borrowing concern, not a demonstrated impersonation. The registration history reinforces it. The domain's archived record begins in 2003 with sparse, intermittent captures, but the current registration is only months old, which is consistent with a lapsed domain being re-acquired and repurposed. The nature of the earlier content and the new owner's identity cannot be established from the evidence. In mitigation, the sandbox runs found no wallet-connection prompts, clipboard tampering, hidden forms, outbound data posts or content cloaking. This shows that no active theft mechanism was triggered during testing. It does not offset the reputation findings.


Evidence:
- Homepage: the page title presents the site as "Velodrome on Optimist" while the domain is a newly re-registered .info address, not an identified project property.
- Domain registration: created 2026-05-26 (~0.43 years old), expiring 2027-05-26.
- Web archive: 62 snapshots spanning 2003–2026 (24 years tracked), with long gaps in coverage, consistent with an older domain that was dormant and then reused.
- Behavioural testing of the homepage: three successful runs with no external network calls and no wallet or form-hijack behaviour, with six console errors recorded.

### Regulatory Verification Notes

The homepage captured for analysis offers no identifiable operating company, jurisdiction, licensing statement or registration number, and the on-page disclosure position is unclear. The domain's registration details are incomplete and ownership is opaque, which in a financial-services context removes the usual means of attributing responsibility for the service. This is an ownership-opacity and disclosure matter, not an identity contradiction. It is noted as a transparency limitation and not as proof of wrongdoing. No third-party broker or regulator-database entry matched this domain. The website's identity could not be independently linked to any real-world brand or person. The valid certificate and standard registrar record establish only that the domain is technically operational, not who operates it.


Evidence:
- Homepage: no company name, licence, registration number or legal terms were identifiable in the captured content.
- Registration record: domain registered via NICENIC International Group Co., Limited, with owner details hidden or incomplete.
- Hosting: served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YE2 (DV, domain-validated only), valid to 2026-12-20, so no organisational identity is vouched for by the certificate.

### What to Verify Next

Any interaction should begin by establishing whether this domain is an officially endorsed property of the genuine protocol it names. That means checking the protocol's own documentation, social channels and community announcements, reached independently by typed address or trusted bookmark and not through this site. The registrar's abuse and ownership-change process can be used to ask whether the domain changed hands recently. If the site claims to offer regulated financial services, its licensing should be confirmed directly with the relevant financial registry.


Evidence:
- Homepage: the protocol-style title is the only identity claim and needs independent corroboration.
- Registration record: a new 2026 registration on a domain with a 2003 archive trail is the key point to put to the registrar.

### Summary Verdict

The deterministic assessment places this website in the lowest trust tier, with a clearly high-risk posture. Confirmed adverse reputation from independent security sources is decisive, and the apparent repurposing of an older domain under a borrowed protocol identity compounds it. The absence of overtly malicious behaviour in sandbox testing does not change the classification, and the operator's real-world identity remains unestablished.


### Infrastructure Integrity

The site is delivered through Cloudflare's content-delivery and web-application-firewall network, and all observed addresses are CDN edge servers, so the origin host is not visible. The transport-layer configuration is sound, with a valid certificate and a recognised issuer. This is a mitigating factor only: it protects the site against ordinary attack and says nothing about the legitimacy of the operator. Edge-only visibility also prevents independent hosting verification and allows content to be swapped without a change in the observable address, which limits how much the clean infrastructure can offset the reputation findings.


### Closing Assessment

This site should not be used for login, credential entry, wallet connection or any financial transaction. At most, it may be viewed in a read-only manner, and any genuine protocol should be reached only through independently confirmed official channels.


_Written analysis generated 2026-10-29 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._

## What the analysis found

2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, registration and ownership.

### 01 External reputation
- An external threat feed lists this domain: either Google Safe Browsing marked it malicious, or a significant number of malware engines flagged it. (External reputation `rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_CRITICAL`)

### 02 Registration and ownership
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE`)

## Identity verification


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Status | UNKNOWN |
| Identity score | 50/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 30% |

- AI page analysis unavailable (page captured; identity not AI-verified)

_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 velodrome.info.

- The request stayed on velodrome.info. 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 2027-05-26. (Noted)
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2003-11-27. (Clear)
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED |
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3033::6815:193d |
| Name servers | ian.ns.cloudflare.com, romina.ns.cloudflare.com |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 4 |
| Edge IP addresses | 4 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-20 |
| Domain age | 0.43 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-26 |
| Archive first seen | 2003-11-27 |
| Archive snapshots | 62 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 4 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |

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A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about velodrome.info 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.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/velodrome.info) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/velodrome.info · assessed 2026-10-29.*