Quorum achievable via single-entity flash loan

Wormhole's assessment for RD-F-037 — scored gray on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Quorum achievable via single-entity flash loan | W token governance uses checkpoint-based voting (block snapshot), which prevents single-block flash loan quorum attacks. For WIP-1, quorum required ~351M W tokens (inferred: WIP-1 secured 433M in support with "exceeding quorum by over 80M"). With 10B total supply and ~1.8B circulating, single-entity quorum via DEX liquidity is not feasible via true flash loan (checkpoint required). | Wormhole MultiGov docs; WIP-1 vote result (3,428 voters; 433M...

Sources #

Curator note
Extracted from 02-governance-admin.md — RD-F-037; no URL citedretrieved 2026-04-28

Methodology #

Determine whether the governance quorum threshold is ≤ the largest available flash-loan notional in the governance token at reference DEX depth.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol wormhole factor RD-F-037 score gray collected_at 2026-04-28 01:38:43