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While The DAO has an “incredible” team that could build security projects themselves, they would rather focus on security distribution methods, says Griff Green.Unclaimed Ethereum tokens from the infamous 2016 hack on The DAO will be redirected into a new security fund aimed at strengthening the network, says Ethereum advocate Griff Green.
“There’s a lot of money just sitting in random contracts that were supposed to be returned to people who were affected by the hack,” GreenThe incident led to a hard fork of the Ethereum blockchain to recover the funds, which split the community and ultimately created two separate chains, Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.) held in The DAO to token holders, but the claims process was not straightforward. Green said that certain “edge cases” were handled through a multisignature wallet he joined, involving around $6 million. While more than 80% of those funds have since been claimed, the remaining balance is now worth around $200 million. “We’re going to stake them and use the revenue to actually support Ethereum security,” he said.“It makes sense that The DAO is now going to be focused on security,” Green said. “We really want to stick to our guns with The DAO and live up to the name of The DAO, so we’re going to focus on DAO style distributions,” he said. Green said that while The DAO has an “incredible” pool of developers capable of identifying security projects to support, the priority will be on security distribution methods, including retroactive funding, quadratic funding, conviction voting, and ranked-choice voting, with the aim of strengthening the broader ecosystem.“I really want to see The DAO security fund come to a place where people feel that it’s safer to store assets on Ethereum than in a bank,” Green said. “The DAO really kickstarted the security industry in Ethereum,” Green added, noting that before the hack, there was effectively no audit market, but afterward, smart contract audits became widespread.Cointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced in accordance with Cointelegraph’s Editorial Policy and aims to provide accurate and timely information. Readers are encouraged to verify information independently. Read our Editorial Policy
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