Emergency-veto multisig present

Hyperliquid's assessment for RD-F-040 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Lockers set (2-of-5) can pause bridge functioning as circuit-breaker. Cold validator quorum provides second tier for parameter changes. However, neither Lockers nor cold validators can veto a Foundation proxy admin upgrade or a governance HIP. No veto mechanism against upgrade decisions.

Sources #

GitHub
Bridge2.sol lockers function — emergency pause but not upgrade vetoBridge2.sol voteEmergencyLockretrieved 2026-04-28
URL
Hyperliquid layered validator model with role separationQuillaudits analysisretrieved 2026-04-28

Methodology #

Determine whether an emergency-veto or guardian multisig exists with power to cancel malicious proposals before execution.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol hyperliquid factor RD-F-040 score yellow collected_at 2026-04-28 13:58:49