Aragon launches defensive measures against Arca's '51% attack'
Aragon, an open-source framework designed to launch decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), has pulled plans for its native Aragon (ANT) token holders to be given voting rights over the future direction of the organization.
The Aragon Association, a Switzerland-based organization that oversees the management of Aragon said in a May 9 tweet it exercised its “fiduciary duty” to secure its treasury and overall mission by “repurposing the Aragon DAO as part of a new grants program.”
The decision was made after the recently launched Aragon DAO suffered a 51% attack at the hands of a group called the “Risk Free Value (RFV) Raiders” who were seeking to manipulate the use of ANT as a means to achieve financial gain.
Today, the Aragon Association acted on its fiduciary duty to secure its treasury by repurposing the Aragon DAO into a grants program.This is a response to a coordinated attack by the group known as "Risk Free Value Raiders" who took down Rook DAO. https://t.co/tVp9QXUUsx
According to a blog post from Aragon, the RFV Raiders are linked to the recent attack and liquidation of Rook DAO which occurred in early April. Aragon alleges the Raiders are activist investors from the asset management firm Arca Capital Management and refer to themselves as the “vultures of crypto.”
The blog post shed further light on the controversial decision:
Aragon explained that because of Swiss regulations that mandate its use for those stated ends, its fiduciary duty compels it to “secure these funds from those seeking to access them for their own financial gains.”
A May 9 Twitter thread detailing the current status of the Aragon DAO explained that Aragon transferred an initial payment of 300,000 USD Coin (USDC) to the Aragon Grants DAO.
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