Hot-wallet signer flag

Babylon Protocol's assessment for RD-F-030 — scored gray on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Covenant committee signers hold compressed Schnorr public keys for Bitcoin co-signing — these are offline keys for a federated signing service, not EVM hot wallets. On-chain behavioral heuristics (nonce velocity, gas jitter) are inapplicable to Bitcoin Schnorr keys. BABY governance is DAO-level; individual validator signing behavior for governance is not equivalent to multisig hot-wallet risk. Insufficient data to assess; structurally different from EVM hot-wallet pattern.

Sources #

GitHub
Covenant Emulator RepositoryNon-EVM architecture — Bitcoin Schnorr keys and Cosmos SDK validator keys are not EVM hot wallets. Behavioral heuristics inapplicable.retrieved 2026-05-04

Methodology #

Determine whether ≥1 multisig signer address exhibits on-chain behavior consistent with a hot wallet (web-wallet signing pattern, no hardware signing indicators).

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol babylon-protocol factor RD-F-030 score gray collected_at 2026-05-04 19:43:27