Balancer hack: hard fork

To me this is the only good reason I’ve heard so far to rush this hard fork and make it happen before a proper framework is in place. If there’s a real risk of the recovery failing if this hard fork is delayed by a few weeks, then it may indeed be worth doing it as soon as we can, with a commitment to also get the framework done as soon as possible.

There is no way to force validators to follow them but it does make their decision much easier if they can defer to a framework that has already been agreed upon by the broader Gnosis Chain community (instead of having to decide by themselves which protocol and victims are worth helping out should this ever happen again).

You’re not missing anything, I was just combining the three sorts of feedback ( unequal treatment / precedence / future situations ) that were brought up across this thread and the two previous Balancer-hack-related threads ([1] [2]) . Unequal treatment was brought up in connection with the Balancer oracle pool situation in the past, but this kind of discussion is guaranteed to come up again in the future if there is no framework.

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