# kaal:claim:4529715-028

**Claim.** Where a founder retains access to the smart contract behind the governance token, as with 3OH DAO, an internal attack by that founder would be remarkably easy.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- founder has not renounced ownership of the token smart contract

**Source quote.**

> If a DAO could have negative attack resistance, 3OH would be the DAO. With the founder having access to the smart contract, an internal attack by the founder would be remarkably easy.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Josh Bykowski, *Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) – A Market Meta Analysis* (2023), Appendix, Political Action DAOs, 3OH DAO, page 66

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Josh Bykowski, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) – A Market Meta Analysis (2023). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4529715

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**Failure mode.** founder-key-retention  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** dao, consensus-and-security, smart-contracts

**Keywords.** dao, insider-attack, smart-contract-ownership, attack-resistance, 3oh-dao

**Related claims.**

- specializes: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4067783-010

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