Hello everyone! This will be the thread for the next standing Proposal Review call that is meant to take place on Wednesday, May 21st.
Proposal authors of active or developing proposals can request time to present & discuss their proposals with the community.
I will update this forum post the day of the call with a proposed agenda based on results from the forum. I will use that agenda as a guide to help facilitate the call.
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Your Gov Experience gal - Shelby
TENTATIVE AGENDA
We would like to present a proposal to fund governance security analytics and reporting via Forse analytics.
Top Level overview:
Abstract
This Token Program Proposal (TPP) requests to fund the research and development of a collusion analysis dashboard for ZKNation’s DAO governance. The dashboard will provide real-time monitoring of whales, delegates, and governance bodies to detect and mitigate governance security risks.
Motivation
Decentralized governance systems like ZKNation’s rely on the integrity of the Token Assembly, Security Council, and Guardians. Collusion, defined as coordinated actions to manipulate governance outcomes, needs to be detected early on. This TPP aims to develop a dashboard to monitor governance security risks, notify interested stakeholders and show a clear path to improving security for ZKSync’s governance.
Specification
Research Scope
Research Scope
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Whale Address Behavior: Analyze token concentration, voting power, and transaction patterns of large holders.
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Delegate Influence:
- Monitor concentration of delegated voting power among top delegates.
- Analyze voting alignment among delegates to detect potential coordination.
- Delegation Network Analysis: Map delegation relationships to identify which addresses delegate to whom, visualizing the flow of voting power. Identify central nodes accumulating significant delegated power, detect circular delegation patterns, and monitor changes before key governance events. This will use network graph techniques to uncover hidden patterns of influence and potential collusion among delegates.
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Address Clustering: Detect clusters of addresses potentially controlled by one entity.
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Vote Buying Detection: Track suspicious token transfers or delegation spikes before votes.
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Governance Body Collusion: Assess alignment between Guardian vetoes, Security Council actions, and whale/delegate interests. Analyse addresses in these bodies and find possible links to known whales or delegates.
Dashboard Features
- Real-time metrics on token distribution, voting patterns, and address clusters.
- Anomaly detection for unusual transfers or delegation changes.
- Visualizations like network graphs for clustering and heatmaps for voting alignment.
- Integration with ZKSync’s governance data (e.g., vote.zknation.io, forum.zknation.io).
- Open-source, with code and documentation on GitHub.
- Notifications via Email or Telegram to alert interested parties on important events.
Call Notes & Recording
Thanks to everyone who joined the Proposal Review Call on Wednesday! Below is a collection of summarized notes and links shared in the call.
Proposal Review May 21 - Call Recording
Check out the video description for timestamps on different discussion topics. Given we have the recording, notes will be kept very brief. Please watch the recording for full context!
Emergency Upgrade:
- Notice of Emergency Upgrade: This announcement was shared on Friday, May 16th. The emergency upgrade addresses a bug that was found in the implementation of the ZKsync sequencer’s virtual machine that led to an unprovable batch being generated on Abstract. Full report will be shared soon and Vlad from ML engineering team will join a future call to discuss more details.
Onchain:
- [ZIP-10] Activate ZK Gateway as a Settlement Layer
- [ZIP-11] V28 Precompile Upgrade
- Voting period is live!
- One small update: The renamed the branch “release 28” from “draft 28” so the contracts were updated to reflect the new name
- Note re audit costs: Given the onchain cross-over with TPP-3 ZARP, the audit costs for ZIP-11 have not be included in the ZarpRetro calculation. If ZARP and ZIP-11 passe, the request for reimbursement of audit costs for ZIP-11 will be included in a separate capped minter in the next ZIP submitted.
- [GAP-3] Authorization for Security Council to Convert Recovered ETH into ZK
- Voting closed today - Proposal passed (pending execution)
- Security Council is finalizing plan to act once proposal is executed. Expect a statement from them by Friday next week to confirm if they were able to execute or if they need more time.
- [TPP-3] ZIP Audit Reimbursement Program (ZARP)
- Voting closes Friday - quorum has been met.
- Marco from the ZKsync Foundation shared some thoughts and reasoning behind the proposal design (see timestamp for TPP-3 in YouTube video description to watch full discussion)
- Request for feedback: Please let the Gov Team know if there are improvements in the notification process that can be made to help Delegates be aware of proposals while they are on the forum to encourage discussion in that phase of the proposal development process.
- [TPP-4] Deactivate Capped Minters for TPP1 Ignite
Proposal Drafts:
Other Resources
- X Thread from Anthony Rose (Head of Security @ Matter Labs) discussing upcoming ZIPs!