★ Flash-loanable voting weight

dYdX v4 (dYdX Chain)'s assessment for RD-F-036 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Staked DYDX has a 21-day unbonding period. Voting power derives from bonded stake at vote time, not from liquid token balance. Flash-loan governance attacks are structurally impossible — no flash-loan protocol can acquire bonded delegation weight. Green by construction on Cosmos-staking substrate.

Sources #

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Governance - dYdX CommunityGovernance voting uses bonded stakeretrieved 2026-05-17
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Staking - dYdX CommunitydYdX staking module — 21-day unbonding periodretrieved 2026-05-17

Methodology #

Determine whether governance voting power is a function of current token balance of a transferable token with no lock or checkpoint, making it flash-loan susceptible.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol dydx-v4 factor RD-F-036 score green collected_at 2026-05-17 09:58:47