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Guardians

Protocol's pause control procedure

Problem

When something is going poorly (performance issue, critical bug, malicious attempts, etc.), it is important that Ref Finance has a plan to mitigate (i) the risks of contagion and (ii) the impact of such an event (including potential loss of funds).
Often, turning off the frontend/user interface is not good enough because it does not prevent bots from operating, for example.

Solution

The Guardians can be defined as specific NEAR addresses that have the privilege/ability to pause the main contract (v2.ref-finance.near). They are the key participants of a fail-safe procedure, being able to respond in the event of a specific type of failure.
Event/situation that can be defined as, but not limited to:
  • Ongoing attack and/or exploit
  • Critical bug identified in production (not yet exploited)
  • Release/Deployment causing a potential security vulnerability

Procedure

Prerequisite

The Guardians MUST know how to handle the NEAR Command-Line Interface (CLI).

Process

Process Owner: The Guardian
  1. 1.
    Identify a situation that justifies pausing the contract (v2.ref-finance.near)
  2. 2.
    Double check the facts/situation
  3. 3.
    Inform the other Guardians
  4. 4.
    Pause the contract (v2.ref-finance.near)
  5. 5.
    Inform the Team and the DAO/owner of the contract (ref-finance.sputnik-dao.near)
  6. 6.
    Inform the Community
  7. 7.
    Identify the steps to reactivate the contract (v2.ref-finance.near)
Only the owner of the contract can reactivate it (v2.ref-finance.near)
Finally, anyone can see the list of the Guardians by calling the following view method via CLI:
near view v2.ref-finance.near metadata