Balancing Security and Liquidity: A Time-Weighted Snapshot Framework for DAO Governance Voting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00888v2
• Date: Mon, 05 May 2025 22:14:15 GMT
• Title: Balancing Security and Liquidity: A Time-Weighted Snapshot Framework for DAO Governance Voting
• Authors: Zayn Wang, Frank Pu, Vinci Cheung, Robert Hao,
• Abstract summary: Using tokens as a weight for voting introduces opportunities for hackers to manipulate voting results through flash loan.<n>In this research, we learned different defense mechanism against the flash loan attack.<n>We propose a new defensing structure and apply it with cases.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: 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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