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ENS DAO Security Council

The ENS DAO Security Council is a 4-of-8 multi-sig with a limited mandate: to cancel malicious proposals that threaten the DAO, particularly those that would compromise the treasury. It was created to address vulnerabilities stemming from low voter participation relative to treasury size.

Purpose and Powers

The security council is expected to act only in emergency, in the given following situations or similar cases:

  • If a proposal goes against the ENS Constitution
  • If a proposal is approved with malicious intent against the DAO longevity/sustainability
  • If such [a] proposal is approved by any group of voters, but [they are] directly financially incentivised to vote against the DAO's interests to preserve their own financial stake
  • If any approved proposal goes directly against the DAO for the sole benefit of an attacker

The council cannot propose, amend, or otherwise initiate governance actions.

Time-Limited Authority

The Security Council's cancel authority is time-limited. Two years after deployment (at unix timestamp 1784919179), any address may call renounceTimelockRoleByExpiration() to permanently disable the cancel role, promoting decentralisation over time.

Relevant Proposals

The veto was first introduced in Introducing veto.ensdao.eth, and approved via social proposal EP 5.7. Additional discussion occured in Enable the cancel role on the DAO. Member appointments were confirmed in social proposal EP 5.10, and the Security Council was formally implemented in Executable EP 5.13.

Contract Details

SecurityCouncil.sol is deployed to 0xb8fa0ce3f91f41c5292d07475b445c35ddf63ee0 on Ethereum Mainnet. It is owned by the 4-of-8 multi-sig specified in EP 5.10.