Is openusd.markets safe?
http://openusd.markets/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 0 of 5 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 92 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research · not run: did not fully complete
Fake Open USD staking site using Cardano branding on a 6-day-old domain that clones the official pre-launch project.
This is a fake Open USD staking site. The domain is only 6 days old, clones the official project branding, and promises staking services that the real consortium has not yet launched.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 44/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 1 finding pulled the score down.
What pulled the score down
- ReasonThe saved scan found evidence of harm
What pushed the score up
No supporting finding was saved with this report.
This report saved its reasons without a severity for each one, so they are listed as saved. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The domain openusd.markets was registered on July 3, 2026, just days after the official Open USD announcement. The page claims to offer staking and yield farming, yet the real project at joinopenstandard.com is not live and has stated it will launch later in 2026. The site copies the Open USD name and uses the Cardano logo to borrow legitimacy while offering no contact details, business registration, or verifiable team information. Our sandbox and antivirus network returned clean results, but the combination of extreme domain age, clone fingerprint, and contradictory service claims outweighs those signals. The visual analysis flagged the prominent Cardano logo misuse and the generic marketing copy focused on staking for a stablecoin that does not yet exist. These factors together indicate a high-risk crypto investment scheme designed to collect funds or wallet connections before the real project launches.
Page Content
The page presents itself as an Open USD staking and yield-farming platform with repeated marketing language about liquidity, lending, and multi-chain compatibility. It includes a prominent "Request a demo" call-to-action and sections promoting Open USD wallets, treasury, payroll, and commerce features. No contact email, phone number, or physical address appears anywhere on the site, and the layout lacks standard corporate navigation or legal links.
Infrastructure
The site is hosted on IP 104.21.90.79 with a clean abuse score of 0/100 and no prior reports. SSL is valid and issued by Google Trust Services with 88 days remaining. External resources load from cdn.prod.website-files.com, app.vidzflow.com, and static.cloudflareinsights.com. The page shows one redirect hop and no homoglyph or IDN manipulation.
Domain History
The domain openusd.markets is 6 days old, registered on July 3, 2026 through NameCheap with privacy protection disabled. No business registration exists for this domain in connection with the official Open Standard consortium. The timing aligns exactly with the high-profile announcement of the real Open USD stablecoin project.
Web Reputation
Our web research found zero scam reports, zero positive reviews, and zero mentions on independent review aggregators. The evidence package confirms the site is a clone of joinopenstandard.com and that the official project has not yet launched staking or yield services. Multiple sources including Binance, Phemex, and CoinGeek state the network launches later in 2026.
What this means for you
Do not connect any wallet, provide personal information, or send funds to this site. The combination of a brand-new domain, cloned branding, and promises of services the real project has not released marks this as a high-risk impersonation attempt.
Why the score is 44
The saved scan found evidence of harm. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 92
No detectionsSaved analysis from July 10, 2026
No detections across 57 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 35 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 92
All 92 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- Cluster25 - Unrated
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safebrowsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Unrated
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekernewly registered websites
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual warning signs were identified
The site uses the well-known Cardano logo to represent a different entity called 'Open USD', which is a common tactic to borrow legitimacy. The focus on staking and lending for a stablecoin, combined with a lack of standard institutional information, suggests a high-risk crypto scheme.
What the captured page showed
5 observations- 01
Prominent use of Cardano (ADA) logo for an unrelated 'Open USD' stablecoin project
- 02
High-risk keywords including 'staking' and 'lending' associated with a stablecoin brand
- 03
Generic and repetitive marketing copy focused on 'Open USD' without technical specifics
- 04
Minimalist layout lacking standard corporate navigation, footer, or legal links
- 05
Unusual 'Request a demo' call-to-action for a purported decentralized stablecoin
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
OUSD Staking - Open USD Yield & Farming
- Meta description
Maximize your earnings with Open USD staking, yield farming, and liquidity options. Explore lending, borrowing, and bridging with Open USD today!
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
OUSD Staking - Open USD Yield & Farming
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
No complete independent-research result was available in this saved report.
What remains unverified
5 of the 5 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
Risk pattern correlation
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainopenusd.markets
- Redirects toopenusd.markets
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencescdn.prod.website-files.com · app.vidzflow.com
Domain Timeline
- Jul 3, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 6 days old when this review was saved.
- Jul 10, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
openusd.markets was registered very recently when this review was saved and was already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
A certificate issued weeks or days before the scan on a domain registered recently is common on short-lived sites, though new legitimate sites look the same.
Certificate issued for openusd.markets.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Site platform
- Webflow
Analytics and ads
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://openusd.markets/
- 2200https://openusd.markets/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 92 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | saved result · analysed Jul 10, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Jul 10, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Jul 10, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 5 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Jul 10, 2026 |
| Independent research | Independent research was not available for this report | Unavailable | No saved finding | Not available |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnesssaved result · analysed Jul 10, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Jul 10, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Jul 10, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result5 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Jul 10, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultIndependent research was not available for this report
- CompletionUnavailableFindingNo saved finding
- FreshnessNot available
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Fake Open USD staking site using Cardano branding on a 6-day-old domain that clones the official pre-launch project.
This is a fake Open USD staking site. The domain is only 6 days old, clones the official project branding, and promises staking services that the real consortium has not yet launched.
09 · Community
Community
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