Balancing Security and Liquidity: A Time-Weighted Snapshot Framework for DAO Governance Voting
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| author | Wang, Zayn Pu, Frank Cheung, Vinci Hao, Robert |
| author_facet | Wang, Zayn Pu, Frank Cheung, Vinci Hao, Robert |
| contents | As new project upgrading the blockchain industry, novel forms of attack challenges developers to rethink about the design of their innovations. In the growth stage of the development, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) introduces different approaches in managing fund through voting in governance tokens. However, relying on tokens as a weight for voting introduces opportunities for hackers to manipulate voting results through flash loan, allowing malicious proposals - fund withdrawal from DAO to hacker's wallet - to execute through the smart contract. In this research, we learned different defense mechanism against the flash loan attack, and their weakness in accessibility that compromise the security of different blockchain projects. Based on our observation, we propose a new defensing structure and apply it with cases. |
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| spellingShingle | Balancing Security and Liquidity: A Time-Weighted Snapshot Framework for DAO Governance Voting Wang, Zayn Pu, Frank Cheung, Vinci Hao, Robert Cryptography and Security As new project upgrading the blockchain industry, novel forms of attack challenges developers to rethink about the design of their innovations. In the growth stage of the development, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) introduces different approaches in managing fund through voting in governance tokens. However, relying on tokens as a weight for voting introduces opportunities for hackers to manipulate voting results through flash loan, allowing malicious proposals - fund withdrawal from DAO to hacker's wallet - to execute through the smart contract. In this research, we learned different defense mechanism against the flash loan attack, and their weakness in accessibility that compromise the security of different blockchain projects. Based on our observation, we propose a new defensing structure and apply it with cases. |
| title | Balancing Security and Liquidity: A Time-Weighted Snapshot Framework for DAO Governance Voting |
| topic | Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00888 |