★ Flash-loanable voting weight

Wormhole's assessment for RD-F-036 — scored gray on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Flash-loanable voting weight | MultiGov uses ERC20Votes checkpoints (OZ Governor); voting weight is snapshotted at proposal-creation block, preventing true flash-loan attacks. However, no lockup or cooldown period exists — "no token lockup when staking for governance, no cool-down period" confirmed by official Wormhole blog. A large holder can acquire W, stake, pass checkpoint, and vote without any capital lock. | Wormhole stake-for-governance blog; architecture docs confirming ERC20Votes + O...

Sources #

Curator note
Extracted from 02-governance-admin.md — RD-F-036; no URL citedretrieved 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 wormhole factor RD-F-036 score gray collected_at 2026-04-28 01:38:43