BoomDAO Neurons Stripped of Voting Power

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@tiago89

It seems both entities tried to exploit the min/max dissolve delay and age bonus mechanisms, disregarding the will of individual token holders. Max and Tommy notably reduced the dissolve delays to also gain VP advantages.

Any chance you could explain this further? I’m aware that it is possible to decrease the max dissolve delay and that makes it possible to have neurons with a dissolve delay that are larger than the max allowed. However, the voting power boost is capped at the max dissolve delay no matter what it is. So going from a higher to a lower max dissolve delay just helps the neurons with a smaller dissolve delay because it gives them a bigger fraction of the dissolve delay range. In what way is this something that can be exploited? Perhaps my understanding is incorrect. If there is an exploit here, then I agree we should talk about it and ask that it be resolved as well.

@tiago89

On the NNS dApp, it should be more clearly indicated which topics are considered critical when setting follows.

I agree and hope this is being solved with the upcoming SNS framework changes.

@tiago89

SNS Projects should be able to configure other types as Critical (especially the setting and running of custom functions). For example Water Neuron has nICP ledger as SNS canister dApp. So there could be an attack vector on minting / inflation, etc.

I’m pretty sure this one is in progress. Although I don’t think SNS Topics (plan and design) have been fully implemented yet. They may have been delayed due to the fact that @borovan has also weaponized the Set Topics for Custom Proposals type for NFID (and others). This proposal type was created recently and DFINITY has asked all SNS projects to set their proposal topic for all their custom proposal types ASAP. However, it is a critical proposal, which means it doesn’t roll up under the All Non-Critical Proposals catch all and it only requires 1/3 to reject. At the decentralization swap @borovan made an 8.15% commitment to NFID, which gave him 20.67% total voting power without buying any new tokens. That’s enough to single handedly achieve the 1/3 reject since NFID had such a high commitment from Neurons Fund, gave a VC that won’t/can’t participate in governance a lot of tokens, and set their dev neurons up with a vesting schedule that prevents them from increasing the dissolve delay parameters of their own neurons. It’s another unfortunate situation enabled by the SNS framework where @borovan is taking advantage. He is blocking all necessary proposals for that SNS, so it seems that DFINITY may have delayed to roll out of the SNS topics feature where each SNS can set all their topics as either normal or critical.