BAC-L3-SEC-109Blockchain security
Governance attacks
Taking over a protocol without attacking its consensus: buying votes, exploiting apathy, or simply waiting for the right moment.
- Level
- L3 — Infrastructure engineer
- Duration
- 3 h
- Track
- Blockchain security
- Maintainer
- Blockchain Security Engineer
Learning objectives
- 01Identify a governance's capture vectors
- 02Cost out passing a hostile proposal
- 03Design proportionate countermeasures
Guided lab
Simulate a governance takeover on a low-participation lab network.
Independent lab
Audit your own chain's governance parameters and fix what makes it capturable.
Security angle
Real participation, not the theoretical quorum, determines the cost of a capture.
Assessment
Governance audit with fixes applied and demonstrated.