★ Flash-loanable voting weight

Curve Finance'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 #

veCRV is non-transferrable. CRV must be locked (1 week to 4 years) to obtain veCRV. Flash loans cannot acquire veCRV by any mechanism. Voting power is time-decay-weighted checkpointed balance of locked CRV. Definitively not flash-loanable. Strongest anti-flash-loan governance design in DeFi.

Sources #

Docs
Curve DAO: Four years of securing a DEX with Aragon governancearagon.org/how-to/curve-dao: 'veCRV tokens are non-transferrable, preventing secondary market sales and reducing attack vectors for rapid governance token accumulation'retrieved 2026-04-28
Docs
Curve DAO: Vote-Escrowed CRVcurve.readthedocs.io/dao-vecrv.html — veCRV mechanics, non-transferrable, lock-basedretrieved 2026-04-28

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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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol curve-v2 factor RD-F-036 score green collected_at 2026-04-28 19:48:40