TIP-108: Adjust Onchain Voting Period to 7 Days

Vote Type Token holder DAO on-chain 9-day vote period

DAO-elected Sponsors @Luna5 , @JohnPackel, @mcitizen42

This proposal reduces the on-chain voting period in Threshold’s Governor Bravo from the current 10 calendar days to 7 calendar days, while fully preserving the existing late-quorum extension mechanism (automatic 2-day extension if quorum is reached in the final <2 days).

Motivation & Reasoning for Reducing to 7 Days: the original 10-day voting period was chosen in early 2023 (post-merge of Keep + NuCypher) for extra caution:

Very distributed, retail-heavy holder base. Desire for maximum deliberation time on treasury / minting proposals. Built-in late-quorum protection already makes the effective maximum ~12 days.

However, three years of real-world data across dozens of Governor-based DAOs(Uniswap, Aave V3, Optimism, Balancer, ENS, Lido, etc.) show that 7 calendar days has become the new standard for the following evidence-based reasons:

Faster protocol iteration – Threshold is now a mature project, treasury spends or parameter tweaks feel sluggish compared to peer protocols.

Current best practise – Almost every major DAO now targets “one real-world week”.

No observed benefit from 10 days – Reviewing the last 15 on-chain TIPs (2024–2025), voting activity is almost always concentrated in days 2–7. No proposal has ever needed the full 10 days to reach healthy participation.

Why 7 Days ?

The late-quorum extension is the single most effective defense against flash-loan or borrow attacks (used successfully by Aave, Balancer, etc.). It forces any attacker to hold the borrowed tokens for at least an extra ~2 days, borrowing cost is still measured in tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for quorum-sized attacks.

2-day voting delay + 2-day timelock = minimum 11 days from proposal creation to execution even a “fast” malicious execution (longer with extension).

Elected Committee veto remains active during the entire onchain phase – an additional emergency brake that few other DAOs have.