Guru Network Classic

Guru Network Classic is a ten-chain total of assets held across ftm.guru utility, yield and bespoke project contracts, not a single BSC investment product. Its adapter reads USD-denominated totals written into one Universal TVL Finder contract per chain instead of rebuilding each underlying asset and liability. DefiLlama reported $1.70M on 2026-08-16, primarily Binance, Sonic and MultiVAC, with small approved-chain balances on Arbitrum and others. A rejected-chain finding was therefore false. The protocol is below the size floor, so the version-1 dossier rejects this unresolved total and does not open an individual product review until it clears the floor.

Review triggers: events that reopen the verdict
• TVL sustained above the retired TVL threshold for 30 days
• Separates an exact investable product with reconstructable assets, liabilities, authorities, incidents and a proposed-size withdrawal on an approved chain

Watched nightly: a warning on its venues or files, or a cited document that changes, reopens the memo. The first confirmation is due 2026-11-15.

The research file

Identity, accounting and class applicability

The official adapter describes Guru Classic as a multi-faceted tool and service suite. It reads a `tvl()` number from a TvlGuru contract on each chain. The number represents USD value; the adapter does not derive it from named tokens and owners. The coverage record mixes contracts and utilities without naming one investable receipt, so no single mechanism class can be supported. The protocol is below the size floor, which is a narrower and more accurate finding than treating the whole total as BSC-only.

Corrected chain and product perimeter

The current API assigns value across Echelon, Fantom, Avalanche, MultiVAC, Polygon, Sonic, Metis, Arbitrum, Binance and Kucoin. Binance is the largest part, but nonzero balances on Sonic, MultiVAC, Fantom and Arbitrum disprove the former rejected-chain basis. The record does not show that all ten parts are mutually substitutable or that an advised client can acquire one claim spanning the total.

Control, lifecycle and exit applicability

Guru publishes TvlGuru contracts and raw TVL tools, but the adapter’s stored USD totals do not show the underlying tokens, pool owners, privileged roles, liabilities or usable withdrawal depth. A client exit would depend on the specific downstream Guru product and chain, not on the total. Because the adapter does not derive the holdings, the assets cannot be traced through it, and the $1.70M headline cannot be treated as cash available to redeem one position.

Comparison and measurable reopening test

Unlike Yearn or a named ERC-4626 vault, Guru Classic does not present one surveyed receipt with assets and exits that can be rebuilt from the record. Unlike a direct chain rejection, part of its coverage sits on otherwise reviewable chains. The protocol is below the size floor. Do not open an individual review until the same total clears the floor for 30 days and the specific proposed product is separated with token, contract, chain, asset, liability, authority, incident and proposed-size withdrawal evidence.

Research status

This is a capacity-unproven record for Guru Network Classic, not a quality rejection or approval. Reported TVL says how big the venue is, not what the client owns, who can change the rules, or how a position exits at a proposed size. The individual review opens when the protocol clears the size floor.

Sources

The claims above trace to these. Where a number could not be independently verified, the thesis says so.

• BscScan — Guru Classic TvlGuru contract · primary · accessed 2026-08-16
  Supports: Binance deployment, TvlGuru contract, onchain stored total, contract lifecycle
• SonicScan — Guru Classic TvlGuru contract · primary · accessed 2026-08-16
  Supports: Sonic deployment, TvlGuru contract, multichain perimeter, contract lifecycle
• DefiLlama adapter — Guru Classic TvlGuru reads · secondary · accessed 2026-08-16
  Supports: TvlGuru contracts, stored USD totals, ten-chain configuration, methodology
• DefiLlama — Guru Network Classic survey record · secondary · accessed 2026-08-16
  Supports: $1,703,604 TVL, ten-chain perimeter, Yield category, current lifecycle
• Guru Network Docs — official links and identity · primary · accessed 2026-08-16
  Supports: official identity boundary, current domains, repositories, separate modern Guru network

Inherited controls

The research above describes the protocol layer. Every position also inherits the asset it holds and the chain it settles on. The layer with the most administrative power sets the position’s effective control; that describes control, not quality or suitability.