Core DAO confirmed that CORE tokens staked directly with network validators or through other third-party protocols were not impacted by the b14g exploit.

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Babylon submitted a governance proposal on October 14, 2026 to add native Bitcoin collateral to Aave V4 using Trustless Bitcoin Vaults

Core DAO stated that its consensus mechanism, validators, and core network operated normally during and after the October 31, 2026 b14g exploit.

World Liberty Financial stated that the WLFI token buyback program is designed to encourage active governance participation and concentrate voting power among long-term token holders

In September 2025, World Liberty Financial passed a governance proposal with 99.8% approval to redirect liquidity fees toward purchasing WLFI tokens on the open market, including a late 2025 buyback of 59 million tokens worth $10 million

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Binance filed a draft Constitutional Arbitrum Improvement Proposal with ArbitrumDAO seeking the return of 8,425.997 ETH and 74.56 million ARB frozen after its hot-wallet exploit

Aave delegates emergency risk management capabilities to two manual multisig entities called the Risk Stewards and the Guardians

The Aave Labs, Kamino, and Veda framework paper asserts that decentralized lending markets can continue operating under existing code rules even if a DAO stops making governance decisions

The Aave, Kamino, and Veda legal framework paper submitted to the SEC highlights that mandatory public notice and time delays for DAO governance changes allow users to withdraw assets before new protocol rules take effect

Following the October 29 Binance hack, the Aave community voted to freeze Aave lending markets across all networks to prevent the attacker from swapping or borrowing against stolen collateral

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NEAR Protocol's House of Stake voted to approve proposal HSP-029, lowering the network's maximum annual token issuance from 2.5% to 1.6%

SVRN CEO Sal Ternullo said NEAR Protocol staking yields are expected to fall from approximately 5.27% gross to 3.37% as new token emissions decrease

Following the Security Council's April 2026 KelpDAO recovery, an ArbitrumDAO vote was delayed when families holding unpaid terrorism judgments against North Korea attempted to claim the ETH recovered from the KelpDAO exploiter in federal court

Arbitrum's Security Council is a 12-member body elected by ARB token holders that requires nine signers to execute emergency protocol updates

Steven Goldfeder, co-founder and CEO of Offchain Labs, stated in July 2026 that Arbitrum's emergency powers belong to an external, broadly elected council rather than individual developers

Arbitrum's Security Council previously used its emergency powers in April 2026 to transfer over 30,765 ETH from an address held by the KelpDAO exploiter on Arbitrum One

Security firm Zealynx noted that blockchain rules requiring a private key to authorize transfers hold true only up to whoever controls the protocol's upgrade path

Proposal HSP-029 maintains NEAR Protocol's split of newly issued tokens, directing 90% to stakers and 10% to the protocol treasury, with no added spending or validator subsidies

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Molly Abraham stated that New Jersey users missed millions of dollars in staking rewards over three years, while Coinbase previously estimated those missed state rewards at over $15 million

In its October 29, 2026 quarterly filing, Coinbase warned that losing its remaining state-level enforcement cases in California, Maryland, Wisconsin, and Washington could materially hurt its business

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission agreed in February 2025 to drop its federal lawsuit against Coinbase regarding the exchange's crypto staking service