the potential for an attack on the ENS DAO poses a significant risk not just to our this governance, but to the confidence in decentralized models across Ethereum. A successful attack on ENS could undermine trust in governance structures, discourage participation, and deter investment across other projects in the space. This concern isn’t limited to ENS—it affects the whole ecosystem.
The need to differentiate between various types of vulnerabilities is paramoutn. This distinction is essential for determining when retroactive funding is justified and how we allocate resources to mitigate risks effectively. By clearly defining categories—such as proven vulnerabilities, potential vulnerabilities, executed but undiscovered vulnerabilities, and theoretical vulnerabilities—we can establish more transparent criteria for evaluating claims for compensation. This “line in the sand” helps ensure that retroactive funding is fair, justifiable, and proportional to the severity and impact of the issue identified. Where as some individuals have also spent hours of their own time with out any direction by any persons officially attached to ENS with little or no response. Providing potential vulnerabilities has proven to not meet a standard for reward or retroactive compensations. The fact that multiple potential threats have been raised, with little action taken in response, raises concerns about how seriously governance structures are treating these potential risks.
If we want to actually strengthen the DAO to protect against attacks that involve majority control, then the DAO should consider spreading more tokens across more continually active members that have proven to consistently show face and be active in their contributions.
Since this also relates to protecting the DAO via token ownership. I would like to say that I believe the top 100 contributors on the forum should have at least 20k ens tokens. Yet we are continually giving tokens to the same people and worry about majority attack potential despite knowing that those working on ENS are highly unlikely to so something like this… but yeah. just my thoughts.