★ Flash-loanable voting weight

Hyperliquid's assessment for RD-F-036 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

HYPE governance uses stake-weighted validator voting with 1-day delegation lockup and 7-day unstaking queue — prevents flash-loan governance attacks. However, governance is informal (validator declarations, not on-chain contract-enforced quorum). No formal flash-loan guard in a governor contract. JELLY vote in ~2 minutes demonstrates no minimum quorum delay.

Sources #

URL
JELLY incident — validators voted unanimously in ~2 minutesJELLY incident timelineretrieved 2026-04-28
Docs
HYPE staking — 1-day lockup, 7-day unstaking queueHyperliquid staking docsretrieved 2026-04-28

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.

See the full factor methodology and distribution across all protocols →

rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol hyperliquid factor RD-F-036 score yellow collected_at 2026-04-28 13:58:49