Security
Pool Party is a self-custodial DeFi platform on Base. Your funds stay in your own wallet until you deposit them into a strategy smart contract, and every deposit, position, and withdrawal is on-chain and publicly verifiable. This page states plainly what that protects you from, what it does not, and how to verify things for yourself.
Self-custodial by design
Pool Party never takes custody of your assets. There is no deposit account, no internal balance, and no employee who can move, freeze, or seize your funds. You connect your own wallet, you sign every transaction, and positions are held by smart contracts you interact with directly. If pool-party.xyz went offline tomorrow, your positions would remain yours on-chain.
What self-custody does not remove
Self-custody removes counterparty custody risk. It does not remove smart contract risk (code can have bugs), market risk (token prices move, impermanent loss is real), or key risk (whoever holds your seed phrase holds your funds). Honest security means naming all three, not promising they are gone.
Contracts
Pool Party's contract on Base, verifiable on BaseScan (check the verified source, holders, and transaction history before depositing):
Admin and upgrades: contract administration is held by a multisig, and upgrades pass through a 4-day timelock, so any change is visible on-chain before it takes effect.
Current status (what is not yet published)
We would rather state gaps plainly than imply coverage we cannot link. As of today:
- No third-party audit report is published on this page yet.
- A formal, hosted bug bounty program is not live yet (see bug bounty).
Each item will appear here, with links, as it becomes available. Until then, verify everything yourself on BaseScan and size your positions accordingly.
Audits
Our policy is simple: we only badge an audit we can link. Each published audit report will be listed on this page with the auditor's name, the report date, a link to the full report, and the audited contract addresses with BaseScan links. If a report is not listed here yet, do not assume coverage. Treat that as the current state and size your positions accordingly.
Admin keys and upgrades
Who can upgrade a contract matters as much as the audit. As noted above, administration is held by a multisig and upgrades pass through a 4-day timelock, so a change is visible on-chain before it can take effect. You can verify the admin configuration and any pending changes directly on BaseScan.
How to verify for yourself
- Check the contract on BaseScan before depositing: verified source code, holders, and transaction history are public.
- Only use the app at app.pool-party.xyz, reached from pool-party.xyz. Bookmark it. Phishing clones of DeFi apps are common.
- No one from Pool Party will ever ask for your seed phrase or private key, in DMs or anywhere else. Anyone who does is a scammer.
- Read the risk disclaimer before committing funds.
Report a vulnerability
If you believe you have found a security issue, report it privately. Reach the team through GitHub or the moderators in our Discord. Please do not disclose publicly before we have had a chance to respond.
Recognition
Independent, third-party recognition of the Pool Party Labs team. These are hackathon and incubator achievements that show our DeFi engineering track record. They are not security audits of the product.
- ETHGlobal Lisbon 2026Double first place at ETHGlobal Lisbon 2026 (Continuity Track)Pool Party took 1st place in both Continuity Track prizes it entered: Best Uniswap Stack Contribution (Uniswap Foundation) and Build an Aqua App (1inch). ETHGlobal's own project page lists both wins.View proof: ETHGlobal project page listing both first places
- Base Batches Demo Day 001Third-place award at Base Batches Demo Day 001 (Base's global builder program)Base recognized Pool Party among the winning teams at Demo Day 001, chosen from over 1,200 projects across the program.View proof: Base announcement (@base)
- DynamicShield HookPrize-winning submission in the Uniswap Hook Incubator (UHI3)A Uniswap v4 hook built by the Pool Party team that reduces impermanent loss for liquidity providers.View proof: Atrium Academy hook directory
- Pool Party Yield CardGnosis Chain bounty winner at ETHLisbon 2025A cross-chain top-up for Gnosis Pay built by the Pool Party team (Cross chain top up of Gnosis Pay).View proof: ETHLisbon 2025 results recap