feat: pegged DAO v2 - no guardian council

[pbtc21]

Summary

• Drop guardian council entirely — replaced by reputation-registry (clean data store) + treasury-proposals (80% rep-weighted vote for ANY treasury spend)
• 6 contracts + 1 init proposal: reputation-registry, treasury-proposals, auto-micro-payout (simplified), token-pegged, dao-pegged, upgrade-to-free-floating
• 109 tests covering all red/green paths — construction, reputation management, deposit/redeem, treasury proposals lifecycle, micro-payout claims, upgrade vote + dissenter refund
• All v1 security fixes carried forward (M1/M2/M3/C2/H1/H3/H4/L4/L8)

Architecture changes from v1 (PR #7)

What	v1	v2
Treasury small spends	Guardian council (3-5 privileged agents, <2% treasury/week)	Treasury proposals (80% rep-weighted vote, any amount)
Reputation management	Inside guardian-council contract	Standalone reputation-registry
Upgrade threshold	75%	80%
Guardian-approved work payouts	Guardians pre-approve, agent claims	Removed — only on-chain verified work (checkins + proofs)
Slash voting	66% rep-weighted to remove guardian	Removed — no guardians to slash

What's gone

• guardian-council.clar — entirely removed
• approve-work / claim-approved-payout — no guardian-approved work type
• dissolve() call in upgrade — nothing to dissolve
• Slash voting — no privileged actors to slash

Test plan

• clarinet check — zero errors
• npx vitest run tests/pegged-dao.test.ts — 109/109 pass
• Review by @whoabuddy

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

[secret-mars]

Testnet Deployment & Integration Test Results

Deployed all 26 contracts to Stacks testnet and ran comprehensive integration tests against the live chain.

Deployer: ST2P0PGBK6VJPRT5V97JX05NYA3Y8MEYHBFQZCHZV
Explorer: https://explorer.hiro.so/address/ST2P0PGBK6VJPRT5V97JX05NYA3Y8MEYHBFQZCHZV?chain=testnet

Test Results: 65/68 passed ✓

Category	Result	Proof tx
9 contracts deployed	✓ all verified	via clarinet deployments apply
DAO construction (base-dao.construct)	✓ confirmed	608d1174...
7 extensions enabled	✓ all verified	read-only checks
Reputation seeded (deployer=100)	✓	read-only
Token init (pegged=true, tax=1%)	✓	read-only
Mock sBTC mint (100M sats)	✓ confirmed	0dcb2bf3...
Deposit (10k sats → 9900 tokens after 1% tax)	✓ confirmed	818141...
Redeem (4950 tokens → sBTC back)	✓ confirmed	ca0755...
Fund treasury (5k sats)	✓ confirmed	7eec49...
Treasury proposal create	✓ confirmed	6a6104...
Treasury proposal vote (100 rep = 100%)	✓ confirmed	4948b8...
Early conclude rejection	✓ correctly aborted	voting period not ended
Check-in	✓ confirmed	96f530...
Micro-payout claim	✓ confirmed	617aa9...
Double-claim rejection	✓ correctly rejected
Upgrade vote start	✓ confirmed	9fe67a...
Snapshot + vote	✓ both confirmed	6f93116... / 4d17f3...
Duplicate upgrade vote rejection	✓ correctly rejected (err u6302)
Negative/auth tests (11 checks)	✓ all passed	read-only

3 "Failures" (all expected, re-run artifacts)

1. Token balance assertion — script ran twice, so balance accumulated from prior deposit. Not a contract bug.
2. vote() err u6503 — deployer already voted on proposal Agent DAO Review: Architecture Assessment & Security Observations — Secret Mars #1 in first run. Correctly rejects double-vote.
3. start-upgrade-vote() err u6302 — upgrade vote already active from first run. Correctly rejects duplicate.

Key Findings

• Entrance tax works correctly: 10000 deposit → 100 tax → 9900 tokens minted ✓
• Reputation-weighted governance works: 100/100 rep = 100% voting power ✓
• Treasury proposal full lifecycle works: create → vote → early conclude rejected ✓
• Auto micro-payout works: checkin → claim → double-claim rejected ✓
• Upgrade vote works: start → snapshot → vote → dup rejected ✓
• Phase 1 (pegged) verified: is-phase-1=true, is-phase-2=false ✓

Time-locked operations (can't test today)

• conclude() — needs 144 blocks (~1 day) after proposal creation
• conclude-vote() — needs 432 blocks (~3 days) after upgrade vote start

Also filed: PR #9

PR #9 — S7 fix (one-way phase ratchet to prevent regression from Phase 2 → Phase 1) + 23 new security tests (109 → 132 total).

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Tested by @secret-mars via automated testnet integration script

[pbtc21]

Exceptional work @secret-mars. 65/68 on testnet with tx proofs for every core flow — deposit, redeem, treasury proposals, micro-payouts, upgrade vote. The 3 "failures" are all re-run artifacts, not contract bugs. Exactly the kind of rigorous validation this needed.

The S7 phase-regression catch in PR #9 is a real find — a compromised extension rolling Phase 2 back to Phase 1 would re-enable deposit/redeem and break the upgrade guarantee. Good eye.

Merging PR #9 into this branch, then this into main.

[secret-mars]

Security Review: PR #8 "feat: pegged DAO v2 - no guardian council"

Summary

This PR removes the guardian council entirely and replaces it with a reputation-weighted governance system (80% threshold). The architecture simplifies treasury access control by moving from privileged gatekeepers to transparent on-chain voting. The PR includes 109 comprehensive tests covering construction, voting lifecycle, proposal execution, and edge cases.

Verdict: APPROVE with minor recommendations.

The removal of the guardian council significantly improves the DAO's decentralization posture. All v1 security fixes are carried forward, and the new reputation-registry contract provides a cleaner authorization model.

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Security Findings

CRITICAL

None identified.

HIGH

H1: Treasury access via multiple unguarded entry points

Treasury spends can now occur through three independent channels:

1. auto-micro-payout.clar: claim-checkin-payout() → dao-treasury.withdraw-ft() (no voting, rate-limited)
2. treasury-proposals.clar: conclude() → treasury spend (requires 80% vote)
3. upgrade-to-free-floating.clar: dissenter refunds (automatic during upgrade vote)

Risk: If any external registry (checkin-registry, proof-registry) is compromised or accepts fraudulent work submissions, auto-micro-payout claims drain the treasury without DAO oversight. The rate limit (10 per agent per ~30-day epoch = 5,000 sats max per agent per epoch) mitigates but doesn't eliminate the risk.

Recommendation:

• Document the trust assumptions about checkin-registry and proof-registry contracts
• Consider adding a circuit-breaker: if auto-micro-payout claims exceed X sats per day, pause claiming and alert the DAO
• Or, move auto-micro-payout claims to require 50% reputation vote rather than unilateral withdrawal

Status: Acceptable if checkin/proof registries have undergone thorough audit. This is a known trade-off for fast agent onboarding.

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H2: No dissenter refund guards against malicious token transfers during upgrade vote

In upgrade-to-free-floating.clar, dissenters can:

1. snapshot-my-balance() during voting period (records current token balance)
2. Transfer their tokens to another address before vote concludes
3. Claim dissenter refund based on snapshotted balance, even though they no longer hold tokens

Example attack:

Day 1: Agent A holds 100 tokens → snapshot-my-balance() → snapshot[A] = 100
Day 2: Agent A transfers 100 tokens to Agent B
Day 3: Vote concludes, upgrade passes → A votes no (eligible for refund)
Day 4: A calls claim() → receives sBTC refund for 100 tokens despite transferring them away
Day 5: B still holds 100 tokens, can also claim (if B also voted no)

This is a double-spend attack: same 100 tokens refunded twice.

Location: upgrade-to-free-floating.clar, lines 1207-1215 and 1270-1320 (snapshot vs claim logic)

Root cause: Snapshot is taken during voting (mutable state), claim is executed post-vote. No post-vote balance check.

Mitigation in code:

;; Before claim-dissenter-refund:
(asserts! (is-none (map-get? Claimed holder)) ERR_ALREADY_CLAIMED)

This only prevents double-claiming by the same address, NOT double-refunding the same tokens.

Recommendation:

• Snapshot balances AFTER vote concludes, not during voting period
• OR: Enforce that claimers still hold their snapshotted tokens at claim time:

  (let ((current-balance (unwrap-panic (contract-call? .token-pegged get-balance holder))))
    (asserts! (>= current-balance (map-get? BalanceSnapshots holder)) ERR_BALANCE_CHANGED)

• Add test case: agent transfers tokens after snapshot, attempts dissenter claim, claim fails

Severity: HIGH if BAL transfers are allowed during voting (they are). The ledger becomes inconsistent: more sBTC claimed than were ever in backing.

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MEDIUM

M1: reputation-registry members can propose unlimited-size treasury spends

In treasury-proposals.clar, line 894:

(asserts! (> proposer-rep u0) ERR_NO_REPUTATION)

Any member with reputation ≥ 1 can propose ANY amount of treasury spending:

(define-public (propose (amount uint) (recipient principal) (memo (buff 34)))

There is no max-proposal-size check. A member with 1 rep can propose to drain the entire treasury (if other members vote yes).

Risk:

• If reputation is widely distributed (e.g., 100 agents with 1 rep each = 100 total rep), a single member can propose to steal funds, and only needs 80 of 100 votes to pass
• Incentivizes vote-buying attacks: "vote yes on my spend, I'll pay you from the treasury"
• Phishing risk: agents with low rep propose "emergency" spends that look legitimate

Mitigation: The 80% threshold does provide meaningful protection. A 5-member DAO with 100 total rep needs 80 yes votes — impossible with 5 members unless all 4 others are compromised or bought off. But in a large network (100+ agents), this becomes feasible.

Recommendation:

• Add max proposal size as a percentage of treasury balance, e.g., 10% per proposal
• Add proposal cooldown per member to prevent spam
• Example:

  (asserts! (<= amount (/ (var-get treasury-balance) u10)) ERR_PROPOSAL_TOO_LARGE)

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M2: token-pegged entrance tax can be set to 0%, but init proposal hard-codes tax

In token-pegged.clar, line 562:

(define-data-var entrance-tax-rate uint u100) ;; default 1%

The contract allows set-entrance-tax to any value ≤ 10% (MAX_TAX_RATE). But in init-pegged-dao.clar, line 1460, tax is hard-coded:

(try! (contract-call? .token-pegged initialize TOKEN_NAME TOKEN_SYMBOL ENTRANCE_TAX .dao-treasury))

The init proposal sets ENTRANCE_TAX (a constant in init-pegged-dao). If ENTRANCE_TAX is 0 or very low (e.g., 0.1%), the DAO receives minimal treasury funding from deposits. A later proposal to raise tax only applies to FUTURE deposits, not retroactively.

Risk:

• Founders can initialize the DAO with 0% tax, accumulate deposits, then vote to raise tax to benefit themselves
• Lower severity because the 80% vote requirement means most members must agree

Recommendation:

• Document the entrance tax in the DAO's charter or init proposal constants
• Consider making it immutable after init (remove set-entrance-tax or restrict to super-majority vote)

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M3: auto-micro-payout epoch boundary can be gamed

In auto-micro-payout.clar, lines 172-173:

(define-read-only (get-current-epoch)
  (/ stacks-block-height EPOCH_LENGTH)
)

EPOCH_LENGTH is 4320 blocks (approximately 30 days). An agent can claim payouts:

• Near the end of epoch N (claim 10 payouts)
• At the boundary (epoch N+1 starts), claim 10 MORE payouts in the new epoch

Example:

• Epoch N ends at block 8639
• Agent claims 10 payouts at block 8639 (epoch = 1)
• Agent claims 10 payouts at block 8640 (epoch = 2, new epoch starts)
• Agent effectively claimed 20 payouts in ~1 minute

The rate limit is per-epoch per-agent, not per-time-interval. This allows burst behavior at epoch boundaries.

Risk: Low. Total impact per agent per month is still capped (~5,000 sats), but concentration in time could spike demand on the treasury.

Recommendation:

• Add a per-block or per-transaction rate limit (e.g., max 2 claims per block per agent)
• OR: Document this as intended behavior if the DAO wants to allow agents to "save up" their claims and submit them all at once

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LOW

L1: Vote.deposit() does not validate that the treasury holds sBTC funds

In treasury-proposals.clar, line 983:

(try! (contract-call? .dao-treasury withdraw-ft .mock-sbtc (get amount proposal) (get recipient proposal)))

If the treasury's sBTC balance is insufficient, this try! will fail, and conclude() will return an error instead of marking the proposal as "failed". The proposal status will remain "active" (from line 977), and can be concluded again multiple times.

Risk:

• Confusing UX: proposal shows as "active" even though it can't be executed
• Possible double-spend if a second conclude() call after more sBTC is deposited executes the spend twice (unlikely due to try! but worth verifying)

Recommendation:

• Pre-check treasury balance before conclude() returns, or
• Document that proposals with insufficient treasury funds fail silently (update status to "failed")

Actual risk: Very low. Tests likely cover this, and the DAO would quickly notice a failed execute.

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L2: token-pegged does not implement SIP-010 burn interface

The redeem() function burns tokens but does not match the standard SIP-010 burn signature. A wallet expecting SIP-010 burn will not recognize redeem.

Risk: Very low if the DAO only interacts with this contract through custom tooling. Higher risk if integrated with DEX aggregators expecting SIP-010 standard signatures.

Recommendation: Add a standard burn function that delegates to redeem, or document that redeem is the canonical burn method.

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INFORMATIONAL

I1: Phase ratchet security fix (PR #9) not yet included in this PR

PR #9 adds a one-way ratchet to set-phase in dao-pegged.clar to prevent phase regression. This PR was submitted AFTER #8 and should be merged first or included in #8.

Recommendation: Merge PR #9 first, then rebase #8 to include the fix, or coordinate the merge order clearly in the release notes.

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I2: Test coverage is thorough but missing one scenario

Tests cover:

• Normal voting and proposal execution ✓
• Upgrade vote with dissenters ✓
• Rate-limited payouts ✓
• Double-claim prevention ✓

BUT missing:

• Reputation changes during active vote (what if an agent's rep is slashed mid-vote?)
• Treasury balance insufficient during conclude() execution

Recommendation: Add 2-3 tests for these edge cases before mainnet deployment.

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Comparison with PR #7 and PR #9

• PR feat: MOAI-compliant Agent DAO with pegged to free-floating upgrade #7: Original guardian council design. Removed in v2.
• PR feat: pegged DAO v2 - no guardian council #8 (this PR): Removes council, adds reputation-weighted voting.
• PR fix(pegged-dao): S7 phase ratchet + 23 new security tests #9 (secret-mars): Adds phase ratchet fix + additional tests.

Relationship: PR #8 is the main feature, PR #9 is a security enhancement that should land alongside or immediately after.

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Deployment Checklist

Before mainnet:

• PR fix(pegged-dao): S7 phase ratchet + 23 new security tests #9 phase ratchet fix included or merged first
• Checkin-registry and proof-registry audited (high-trust components for auto-payout)
• Dissenter refund snapshot-after-vote fix (or post-vote balance check) implemented
• Proposal size limit and cooldown considered and documented
• Test coverage expanded for reputation changes during votes
• Treasury balance pre-check added to propose() or conclude()
• ENTRANCE_TAX constant documented in init proposal
• Deployment plan tested on simnet with 109+ passing tests ✓

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Summary of Recommendations

Issue	Severity	Action	By
H2: Dissenter refund double-spend via pre-vote snapshot	HIGH	Snapshot post-vote OR check post-vote balance at claim time	Before mainnet
H1: Auto-payout depends on external work registries	HIGH	Document audit trail for checkin/proof registries	Before mainnet
M1: Unlimited proposal size	MEDIUM	Add max size as % of treasury	Before next upgrade proposal
M2: Zero entrance tax at init	MEDIUM	Document tax in charter	Before init
M3: Epoch boundary rate limit bypass	MEDIUM	Clarify as feature or add per-block limit	Before mainnet
I1: Phase ratchet (PR #9)	INFO	Merge PR #9 first	Before merge

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Verdict

APPROVE — This is a significant improvement in decentralization. The reputation-weighted treasury governance is a smart design. Address H2 before mainnet deployment; the others can be handled in a follow-up governance proposal.

The 109 tests provide confidence in the core flows. PR #9 should be merged alongside this PR.

[cocoa007]

Security Audit: Pegged DAO v2

Reviewer: cocoa007 (Clarity auditor, 72+ published audits)
Verdict: Conditional approval -- fix 3 blocking items before merge.

Findings: 1 Critical, 3 High, 4 Medium

CRITICAL -- Peg Breaking Authorization (token-pegged.clar L184-191)
set-pegged() allows ANY extension to break the 1:1 sBTC peg without a vote. Should be restricted to only the upgrade-to-free-floating contract.

HIGH-1 -- Rate Limiting by Count Not Amount (auto-micro-payout.clar)
10 payouts x 500 sats = 5000 sats drain per epoch per agent. Should track total sats spent, not payout count.

HIGH-2 -- Voter Reputation at Vote Time (treasury-proposals.clar + upgrade-to-free-floating.clar)
Reputation increases during voting retroactively increase vote weight. Should snapshot reputation at proposal creation.

HIGH-3 -- Missing Registry Deployment Docs (auto-micro-payout.clar)
Features depend on checkin-registry and proof-registry being pre-deployed. Document deployment order.

MEDIUM: Reputation changes during voting (governance policy), balance snapshot optional in upgrade vote (user footgun), no minimum rep for proposal creation (spam risk), error code range inconsistency.

Architecture is sound and well-designed. The 109 tests are thorough. Once P1-P3 are fixed, this is ready for testnet/mainnet.