[temp check] ENS Governance Distribution Program (v2.0)

[NameSys]

You mean something like this? It’s an old study from early 2022 ↓

I ran some very basic simulations to access if the DAO can be ‘taken hostage’ by a select number of delegates by triggering on-chain votes with sufficient quorum of 1,000,000 votes. @AvsA pointed out that the top 5 delegates make up for sufficient quorum. I generalised the process to N number of delegates (‘colluders’) over the list of top 50 delegates scrapped from Sybil.org . The top 20 delegates are listed below for quick look-up:

1	brantly.eth		    5.362		367162
2	coinbase.eth		4.840		331375
3	nick.eth			4.149		284107
4	she256.eth	 	    4.065		278319
5	cory_eth			4.000		273907
6	avsa.eth			3.245		222209
7	lefteris.eth		3.202		219252
8	rainbowwallet.eth	2.986		204457
9	fireeyesdao.eth		2.493		170668
10	mikedemarais.eth	2.418		165575
11	griff.eth		    2.417		165522
12	simona.eth		    2.342		160346
13	ChainLinkGod		2.197		150455
14	superphiz.eth		1.996		136646
15	imtoken.eth		    1.719		117721
16	keikreutler.eth	 	1.349		92342
17	maaria.eth	   	    0.975		66762
18	devdao.eth		    0.913		62496
19	marspunks.eth		0.887		60748
20	metaphor.xyz		0.882		60418

The full set of results can be found here . To summarise:

colluders  threats
3          0
4          302
5          17920
6          478783

‘colluders’ == number of rogue delegates
‘threats’ == number of possible combinations of rogue delegates with > 1,000,000 votes in total

These results suggest that a vote can be triggered by as few as 4 not-necessarily-top delegates. In comparison, in a utopic world where all 50 delegates have equal votes, quorum cannot be reached unless a minimum of 9 delegates collude.

In further detail, in each case I looked for reoccurrence of delegates across all combinations of attacks and gave them a threat score (see below)

All three cases put together show the expected trend (see below). Notably, when N > 25, ‘colluders’ effectively become ‘agreers’ since now the majority decides the fate of the protocol.