# Risks & Risk Framework As a cross-chain yield platform, below are the risks involved and how Unison tries to manage it. ### Smart Contract Risk To prevent smart contract risk, all Unison smart contracts will be audited before public launch and in future a bug bounty program will be launched to further ensure the highest level of security. ### Third Party Protocol Risk Unison generates yield by deploying assets on third-party protocols. To mitigate third party protocol risks Unison uses its own vetting process along with Exponential's risk framework. ### Bridge Risk While Unison’s strategies do not rely on bridge pools for capital deployment, they do use bridges for the transfer of assets. Although Unison’s exposure to these bridges is limited to the duration of the transaction, it is worth noting that there is a small risk of financial loss due to potential exploits during the transfer process. Unison uses bridges with highest level of trust. {% hint style="info" %} Unison implements a panic mode to pause the transactions whenever there is a risk of exploit, withdrawing funds from exploited protocol and transferring it back to vault from strategy and removing all the allowances. {% endhint %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.unison.gg/implementation/risks-and-risk-framework.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.