DeFiScoreAudit shield logo
DeFiScoreAudit
Detecting DeFi Risk, Before It Breaks
← Back to DeFiScoreAudit
Rating Screen · Methodology v1.0

JustLend

Lending · JST · $3.5B TVL. JustLend is the dominant money market of the Tron ecosystem, quietly holding $3.5B in TVL with some of the steadiest deposit behavior in the screen. It is also the clearest key-person concentration in the universe: the protocol, its chain, and much of its collateral orbit Justin Sun.

Screened July 27, 2026 Methodology v1.0 (screen) Caps Triggered 0
Solvency
A
78.3 / 100
Will it survive and pay users back?
Legitimacy
BB
53 / 100
Is it real, credible, delivering its stated aim?
Growth
B
41.8 / 100
Adoption toward the protocol's own goal, peer-relative.
Axis I · Credit Grade

Solvency — A

Solvency screens at A on the numbers alone: the shallowest drawdown among large lenders (~20%), negligible unlock pressure, and fee coverage of emissions around 2x. The risk score (6/10) tempers this — collateral quality is dominated by TRX and Tron-native stablecoin flows, so the protocol's solvency is inseparable from the health of a single ecosystem.

Solvency ScorecardA
MetricRawNormalizedWeightWeighted
Sustainability ratio (revenue / emissions)2x
30%24
Does it earn more than it prints? Above 1x is self-sustaining.
TVL stability (max 90-day drawdown)20%
25%21.3
Bank-run indicator: worst 90-day deposit flight.
Unlock pressure (next 12 months)1%
15%15
Incoming insider sell pressure vs circulating supply.
Risk quality (collateral, oracle, exploit posture)6 / 10
30%18
Combined collateral quality, price-feed dependence, and loss history.
FINAL DIMENSION SCORE78.3 → A
Axis II · Legitimacy Score

Legitimacy — BB

Legitimacy screens at BB, the binding constraint. Audit coverage is thinner than TVL of this size warrants, team identity blurs into the broader Tron organization, and governance scores 3/10 — voting power concentration makes token governance largely ceremonial. None of this is hidden; it is simply the structure.

Legitimacy ScorecardBB
MetricRawNormalizedWeightWeighted
Audit coverage6 / 10
25%15
Code credibility: firms, recency, findings resolved.
Team & transparency6 / 10
25%15
Doxxed vs anonymous; track record; disclosure quality.
Delivery vs stated roadmap7 / 10
20%14
Does shipped product match the promise? The core legitimacy test.
Governance & decentralization3 / 10
30%9
Real distributed control vs theater; participation quality.
FINAL DIMENSION SCORE53 → BB
Axis III · Adoption Trajectory

Growth — B

Growth screens at B. TVL has been resilient (down only ~10%), but category share is modest at 14% and momentum is low — the protocol serves its captive ecosystem rather than competing for new markets.

Growth ScorecardB
MetricRawNormalizedWeightWeighted
TVL 12-month trend-10%
35%15.8
Adoption of the core product, in absolute terms.
Category market share14%
30%12
Peer-relative position: winning or losing its niche.
Momentum & users4 / 10
35%14
Usage trajectory and integration growth, filtered for incentives.
FINAL DIMENSION SCORE41.8 → B
Verdict

Where JustLend Lands

Composite B. The screen's read: operationally stable, structurally concentrated. A full rating would hinge on governance and key-person risk far more than on the lending book itself.

Composite — Conservative (Recommended Headline)
B
41.8 / 100 · lowest of the three dimensions

"A chain is as strong as its weakest link." The conservative composite takes the weakest dimension and inherits any notching cap, so a single structural weakness cannot be diluted by strength elsewhere.

Analyst Note
Tron ecosystem; Justin Sun key-person and governance concentration.
Screen vs full rating. This is Methodology v1.0 applied in screening form: the same bands, weights, caps and grade scale as the full Aave workbook, reduced to the highest-signal metrics per dimension so the whole universe stays comparable in one table. Screen grades are provisional. A full rating — per-metric sourcing plus four stress scenarios — is produced when a protocol is selected for publication. Every input is an analyst estimate as of July 27, 2026, drawn from public data (DefiLlama, protocol docs, governance forums, rekt.news) and judgment, and should be verified before being relied upon.
Want the full treatment? See the complete Aave rating — per-metric sourcing, four stress scenarios, and notching-cap analysis — for what a published rating looks like. Join the waitlist to get each new full rating as it publishes.