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Quorum achievable via single-entity flash loan

Uniswap (v2 + v3)'s assessment for RD-F-037 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

V2: not applicable (no governance). V3: quorum of 40M UNI is not achievable via flash loan (checkpoint system prevents this). Even without checkpoints, 40M UNI at reference DEX depth is not available in a single flash loan. Combined: green.

Detail #

UNI checkpoint system makes flash-loan voting attack structurally impossible (see RD-F-036). Independently: the quorum of 40M UNI represents 4% of 1B total supply. No single DEX flash loan pool holds this quantity. A16z holds ~55M UNI sufficient for independent quorum but via long-held tokens, not flash loans — this is a centralization risk (RD-F-047) not a flash-loan risk.

Sources #

Methodology #

Determine whether the governance quorum threshold is ≤ the largest available flash-loan notional in the governance token at reference DEX depth.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol uniswap factor RD-F-037 score green collected_at 2026-05-12 10:36:11