Security Council of the Superfluid DAO

What is it?

Superfluid DAO Constitution defines the Security Council as

  • committee of 3 or 5 members who are signers of a multi-sig wallet
  • with powers to perform specific actions delegated to it by the DAO and the Foundation
  • responsible for upholding the Constitution

The DAO can curtail or eliminate the Security Council’s powers via approval and implementation of a Constitutional SIP.

What will it do?

The Security Council will perform specific Emergency Actions and Non-Emergency Actions delegated to it by the DAO and the Foundation.

  • Emergency Actions include critical vulnerabilities that could significantly compromise the integrity, confidentiality, or availability of Superfluid Protocol on a chain that the SuperfluidDAO has Supported Deployment.

  • Non-Emergency Actions include routine software upgrades, routine maintenance and other parameter adjustments.

More generally, the Security Council’s work would include:

  • Executing future protocol updates
  • Responding to white-hat Reports

Certain routine maintenance activities, such as the whitelisting process for Super Apps, may be delegated by the Security Council to the Community.

Members

Initial members of the Security Council as listed in the Transparency Report are:

  1. ZhiCheng (Miao) Miao - Miao is the co-founder and CTO of Superfluid Finance. Miao is the principal architect of the Superfluid protocol, and keen on continued assurance of the quality and security of the version 1 of the implementation.

  2. Dietmar (Didi) Hofer - Dietmar Hofer has been thinking about and hacking around streaming tokens on Ethereum since 2017 and joined Superfluid after identifying it as the most promising effort to make realtime money a thing.

  3. Jack Sanford - Jack Sanford is the CEO of Sherlock, frequent speaker at DevCon, EthCC, EthDenver and more, and has helped secure some of the most critical infrastructure in the space, including Ethereum, Aave and Cosmos.

Future members will be chosen according to the election process detailed in the Constitution with the first election scheduled to begin in December 2025.

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