Can you verify Staked Kerne USD (skUSD) reserves yourself?
You can read skUSD's on-chain reserves and re-derive its signed proof yourself, with no third-party attestor in the reserve path.
ERC-4626 staking vault whose asset is kUSD. The underlying kUSD backing is the same self-verifiable, signature-bound Proof of Reserves as kUSD itself.
What you cannot verify yourself: The same off-chain hedge leg as kUSD.
Hedge leg: Inherits kUSD's off-chain Hyperliquid hedge leg, which is self-reported and signature-bound only.
Issued by Kerne Protocol (this site). "Attestor-optional" describes the structure of the verification, not the quality of the issuer.
Check skUSD yourself, no permission needed.
The read below is free and live. Recompute Kerne's signed Proof of Reserves yourself, or read it interactively in the free tool.
Live supply, and the command that reproduces it
What this read establishes: On-chain skUSD supply and the ERC-4626 exchange rate to kUSD, plus kUSD's signed Proof of Reserves.
Reproduce the supply read yourself
cast call 0x96f5102c15b839757f811a98cec3725ac21dfa14 "totalSupply()(uint256)" --rpc-url https://mainnet.base.orgcast call 0x96f5102c15b839757f811a98cec3725ac21dfa14 "symbol()(string)" --rpc-url https://mainnet.base.orgPrefer curl? Show the raw JSON-RPC call
curl -s -X POST https://mainnet.base.org -H 'content-type: application/json' --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"eth_call","params":[{"to":"0x96f5102c15b839757f811a98cec3725ac21dfa14","data":"0x18160ddd"},"latest"]}'Live supply is read from the chain and cached hourly on this page; the command above is real-time. Always confirm you are reading the canonical contract address. A look-alike token can copy any name or symbol; only the address is identity.
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Also: the reserve transparency scorecard, the Stablecoin Reserve Recomputation Report, every stablecoin we cover, or paste any address into the free tool.
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