★ Flash-loanable voting weight
Babylon Protocol's assessment for RD-F-036 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
Cosmos SDK x/gov uses bonded BABY (delegated to validators) as voting power, not spot token balance. Tokens must be bonded (staked/delegated) for voting power — requires the staking bonding period. Liquid BABY cannot be flash-loaned into governance voting weight in a single transaction. Voting power is determined by bonded delegation state at proposal creation block. No flash-loan vector identified in this architecture.
Sources #
- Docshttps://docs.cosmos.network/main/modules/govretrieved 2026-05-06
- Governance | Babylon DocsCosmos SDK x/gov: voting power = bonded stake delegations, not spot balanceretrieved 2026-05-04
Methodology #
Determine whether governance voting power is a function of current token balance of a transferable token with no lock or checkpoint, making it flash-loan susceptible.
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