How Does a Malicious Governance Proposal Differ from an Oracle Attack? ⎊ Path

How Does a Malicious Governance Proposal Differ from an Oracle Attack?

An oracle attack manipulates the input data (price feed) the smart contract uses to make decisions. A malicious governance proposal, however, uses the legitimate governance mechanism (voting) to intentionally change the smart contract's logic or parameters, such as redirecting funds or changing the collateral type to a worthless asset, effectively exploiting the system's decision-making process.

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Action ⎊ Malicious Governance describes the coordinated Action by a dominant stakeholder group to exploit a decentralized autonomous organization's (DAO) voting mechanism for private financial gain, often at the expense of minority token holders or protocol integrity.