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Glossary

Governance attack

Acquiring enough voting power to pass a proposal that benefits the attacker, rather than exploiting a code defect.

Why it matters

Nothing is broken; the protocol does what its holders instructed. Where voting power can be borrowed within one transaction via a flash loan and execution is immediate, the cost of a majority collapses to a fee.

What you can check

Governance parameters are usually readable from the governance contract: quorum, proposal threshold, voting period, and whether execution is delayed. The combination that matters is how much voting power passes a proposal and how long the protocol has to react before it executes.

Where it showed up

Records in the Incident Tracker that turn on this: Beanstalk governance flash loan.

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