Part 1- Understanding Research Goals

Determine the current vulnerability of the Arbitrum DAO to governance attacks.
Evaluate the risks associated with reducing the current quorum.
Propose potential solutions and mitigation strategies to enhance DAO security.
Discuss with delegates what are their concerns with current set up? What types of attacks they are concerned with? What is the current treatment of ARB held in DeFi protocols?
What can be the role of the Security Council?

Part 2- Identify Potential Governance Attacks

Research historical attacks on other protocols (notably compound and recent MakerDao) how were they achieved. Can they be reproduced in the current Arbitrum governance Framwork.
Understand the current arbitrum governance framework and ARB staking.
What are the various types of proposals than can be put forward and their potential impact on the DAO?
Identify potential attack vectors and their impact on the DAO and potential profit from those attacks
How does LobbyFi/rise of agence governance becoming the largest delegate impact the potential for governance attacks? With their voting weight of 0.20%, what share of voting power do they hold based on average vote participation? Investigate other bribing mechanism in other chains/protocols.
How do other protocols/chains deal with similar issues? Can we learn from these initiatives?

How is the current voting power split?
- how much is owned by each delegate?
- Karma Score and activity of each delegate.
- token ownership of ARB token where is it spread, holding period.
- Evolution of ARB ownership and how much is being sold, the effects of upcoming token unlocks on ARB distribution.
- understand the incentives for voting for a proposal and how this impacts the risk of an attack. Some delegates or token holders might be encouraged to vote just for the reward
Historical voter turnout- check if this has improved with the introduction of ARB staking rewards. How is the voter turnout influenced by type of proposal and its size?
ARB DeFi integration : how much ARB can be borrowed, shorted on CeXes, restaked or liquidated. Understand the cost of carrying an attack i.e. funding rate, borrowing rate, bribes, liquidity, slippage.