
Compound DAO used protocol reserves to buy $52M of COMP, delegates allege mandate breach
- —344,780 COMP hit the DAO reserve wallet at 09:46 UTC on May 5, 58 minutes before the snapshot
- —The wallet's votes were delegated to the Compound Foundation, which backed Proposal 582
- —Without those votes, supporters would have held 45.1% instead of 50.1%, enough for opponents to defeat the plan
- —Proposal 582 allocated $14M to a Foundation operational wallet and $38M to a Treasury Management Committee pool
Why it matters: The dispute over the Foundation's authority to convert DAO reserves into votes could reshape governance rules at Compound and other DAOs.
Source: CryptoSlate