★ Sudden admin-rescue/ACL change without discussion
Venus Protocol's assessment for RD-F-123 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
Two documented instances of admin-level actions without preceding community governance discussion. (1) September 2021: The Venus Deployer address (acting as governance Guardian) cancelled a passed on-chain governance proposal ('Forming the Bravo Team') immediately after it passed 1.29M vs 1.19M votes on September 14, 2021. The cancellation was announced post-hoc in a community thread. No preceding governance-forum discussion or VIP preceded the cancellation decision — the Guardian exercised unilateral veto over a completed on-chain vote. (2) October 2025: Address 0x60277AdD339d936C4Ab907376afEE4f7aC17D760 delegated ~745,057 XVS to Venus Labs on October 14, 2025 without prior community discussion. Community members raised governance integrity concerns; Venus Labs did not officially respond. Assessment YELLOW rather than RED: (a) the Sept 2021 action was defensive against a hostile takeover attempt with bribed votes; (b) it predates the modern VIP/ACL framework; (c) no concurrent code de
Sources #
- GovernanceCall to Restore Governance Integrity: Pause Delegation from 0x6027 to Venus Labs - Venus CommunityVenus Community - 0x6027 delegation integrity concernretrieved 2026-04-28
- Venus Protocol Prevented Hostile Takeover Attempt | CryptoTimesCryptoTimes - Sept 2021 governance attack preventionretrieved 2026-04-28
- We will stop the same attackers using Guardian - Venus CommunityVenus Community - Guardian cancel forum threadretrieved 2026-04-28
Methodology #
Determine whether any admin-rescue function or ACL change was committed to the repo or executed on-chain without corresponding public discussion in issues, PRs, or governance forum.
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