As rollups mature, achieving decentralized, trust-minimized governance becomes a cornerstone of ensuring security, resilience, and user confidence. Moving from a centralized or partially centralized model toward Stage 1 decentralization means introducing decentralized governance, transparent upgrade pathways, and robust fail-safes.

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Taiko’s based rollup protocol provides a blueprint to meet these requirements efficiently and with minimal friction.

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Optimistic Voting and Veto Rights:

Token holders and delegates can veto standard proposals within a predefined period (e.g., 14 days). By leveraging Aragon’s optimistic voting plugin, participants can exercise onchain checks against undesired actions, ensuring community oversight over non-emergency upgrades and changes. In the meantime, Taiko gets to focus on improving their product and not manage delegate-centric governance.

But if there is ever an emergency…

Security Council:

At the core is a decentralized Security Council (SC) composed of diverse, independent entities. With a high quorum (e.g., 6 of 8 signers), the SC can enact emergency upgrades instantly, ensuring a rapid response to critical threats without relying on a single trusted party.

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Two-Tier Governance (Emergency vs. Standard):

• Emergency Proposals:

Created by the SC, these proposals have no delay and execute immediately to handle time-sensitive threats. To preserve confidentiality, the proposal details are encrypted and only revealed post-approval.

• Standard Proposals:

Created by the same SC members but with a lower threshold (e.g., 3 of 8) to enable community veto rights. Approved proposals trigger an on-chain delay (e.g., 7 days) before execution, providing a meaningful exit window for users who disagree.

Why work with Aragon for your rollup’s decentralization?

• Enhanced Credibility & Security: We help set up a transparent, high-quorum Security Council and guide you in finding the right participants. Its veto rights plugin increases trust among users, institutional participants, and regulators.
• Risk Mitigation & Stability: Instant emergency responses mitigate immediate risks without relying on a single actor, while veto rights and time delays protect against governance capture or rushed decisions.
• Transparency and censorship-resistance: Decentralized decision-making fosters a healthy ecosystem where developers, users, and investors are more likely to engage, contribute, and remain long-term participants as the rules of engagement are clear.

Read more:

Introducing Taiko’s Optimistic Onchain Governance