On the Centralization of Governance Power in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

This collection contains recent security-focused research across blockchain/DeFi, software supply chains, industrial control systems (ICS), and ML/agent security. Key findings: (1) DAO governance mechanisms (token registration, staking, delegation) systematically concentrate voting power, increasing risks of capture and single-point compromise; (2) DeFi shows frequent “imitative attack cascades” where exploits are rapidly reused—GenDetect proposes automated abstraction and matching to generalize reactive rules and uncover previously unseen attacks; (3) supply-chain defenses advance via dynamic