Introduction

Between 2020 and 2024, DAOs lost over $500 million to governance vulnerabilities, including major exploits such as the $160M Compound Proposal 62 and the Tornado Cash Governance Hack. These incidents revealed a persistent and critical gap between the intent of governance proposals and their on-chain execution.

To address this, we are launching Quorum — an open-source tool inspired by Aave’s innovative Seatbelt, a governance security solution originally forked from Uniswap. Quorum furthers this concept by automating essential checks and enhancing DAO governance security.

Challenges in DAO Governance

Governance proposals often introduce changes to the protocol’s core operation. While DAOs rely on community review to validate these decisions, the current manual verification process is labor-intensive, error-prone, and unable to scale with increasing DAO complexity.

This creates significant security risks, as even a small misalignment between proposed actions and actual execution can seriously affect the protocol’s integrity and operations.

What Quorum Brings to DAO Governance

Quorum is an advanced tool for validating and verifying DAO governance proposals. By automating key security checks, analyzing blockchain data, and leveraging LLMs to flag potential code issues, Quorum empowers reviewers to spot risks quickly and make informed decisions. It helps DAOs ensure their governance actions are transparent, accurate, and efficient.

Key Features of Quorum

Built for DAOs, By the Community

As an open-source tool, Quorum embodies the principles of decentralization and community ownership. It comes with powerful out-of-the-box features that are easily configurable to suit various DAOs' needs while offering the flexibility for customization and extension based on specific governance and security requirements.

Developed in Python, Quorum is simple to install via the certora-quorum package on PyPI (pip3) and is fully accessible to contributors.

Quorum’s Roadmap:

Quorum is paving the way toward truly decentralized governance by providing DAOs with tools to verify governance proposals confidently. Our vision is to make governance more accessible and secure for all community members.

The upcoming features outlined in our roadmap will take Quorum to the next level by enhancing AI integration, offering pre-deployment verification for proposal creators, expanding automated checks, and deepening integration with popular governance platforms.

These developments will make decentralized decision-making even more reliable, fostering greater trust and participation across the DAO ecosystem.

Join Us in Shaping DAO Governance

The beta version of Quorum is just the beginning, and we want you to be part of its journey! Join our Discord community to share your thoughts, report bugs, suggest improvements, and discuss how Quorum can better serve DAOs.

Your insights are invaluable, whether you're a developer, governance participant, or security advocate. Let’s collaborate to make decentralized governance more secure and effective.

For those looking to dive deeper into the code, contributions are always welcome on our GitHub repository.

Together, we can shape the future of DAO governance!