Daily governance digest - 2026-08-25

CIP-87: Penalty Cap Redesign

`` CIP-Number: 87 title: Penalty Cap Redesign author: Felix Henneke, Felix Leupold, Roland Gemayel, Archit status: active created: 2026-08-18 `` # Penalty Cap Redesign ## Simple Summary This CIP changes the cap on penalties for unsuccessful settlements from a fixed absolute amount to a relative amount of proposed trade volume. The size of these relative caps is chosen to be as small as possible while still retaining a desired settlement success rate. ## Motivation The auction mechanism of...

BIP-922 Recover unclaimed legacy LM MerkleRedeem funds to BizDev Safe

Summary Recover unclaimed $BAL and $LDO incentives still sitting in Balancer’s pre-veBAL MerkleRedeem liquidity-mining contracts (~364k BAL and ~350k LDO respectively), and transfer recovered tokens to the BizDev Safe for redeployment as user incentives at BizDev’s discretion. # Background Before veBAL, Balancer distributed liquidity-mining rewards via weekly MerkleRedeem contracts (erc20-redeemable): an owner published a merkle root every...

BIP-923 Next Phase Decision for Rescued Funds Distribution from Balancer v2 November 2025 Attacks

Summary Following the execution of [[BIP-892]](https://forum.balancer.fi/t/bip-892-distribution-of-rescued-funds-from-balancer-v2-november-3rd-2025-attacks/6883), which established the initial 180-day (6-month) claim window and distribution framework for funds recovered from the November 3rd, 2025 Balancer v2 exploits, this proposal asks Balancer DAO governance to...

Fake World Assets

Fake World Assets ## ⚡️ TLDR Quick summary: - Send 24 treasury Nouns into fwa.fun, the onchain gacha machine - Each backed with ~1.28 ETH so a winner nets exactly the same whether they keep the Noun or take the ETH - No discounts, no giveaways. Anyone who keeps a Noun turned down its exact cash value to do so - Every listing earns an equal share of every draw fee in the protocol, paid to the treasury - In expectation, a listing earns...

Signal Gnosis Guild to revive GIP-99?

Summary & Purpose This proposal is a non-binding signaling vote to gauge community appetite for inviting Gnosis Guild to revisit the formally steward GnosisDAO governance under the structural principles originally outlined in GIP-99 (with modular governance infrastructure, staged funding milestones, explicit KPIs, and an independent firewall between governance operations and treasury allocation). # Disclaimer: Direct All Heat Here Zero Prior Coordination: Gnosis Guild (and Auryn...

Arbitrum Security Program

Arbitrum Security Program ## Abstract The Arbitrum Foundation proposes to continue and evolve the Arbitrum Audit Program (AAP) - launched on 1 August 2025 with a one-year mandate - into a broader Arbitrum Security Program (ASP), running for a further 12 months on a rolling-application basis. - From "Audit" to "Security". AAP delivered on its original purpose - real...

Modify Open Interest Caps for Various Equity and RWA Perpetual Markets on Injective Exchange dApps

If passed, this proposal will set open interest caps across 116 active equity and RWA perpetual markets: 24 markets at $2,000,000 and 92 markets at $1,000,000. It will also force settle TRIA/USDC PERP at the market oracle price when the proposal passes. All other market parameters remain unchanged. Actions: - By voting yes on this proposal, you support the listed open interest cap updates and force settling TRIA/USDC PERP. - By voting no on this proposal, you do not support the listed open...

Two long-standing wallets restricted on app.sky.money — asking how to request a review

Proposed Housekeeping Item [2026-08-27 Executive Vote]

[Anthias Labs] Reserve Recommendations 8/24/26