Emergency Upgrade Paths

Emergency Upgrade Paths are pre-planned procedures for deploying patches to smart contracts during an active exploit. They allow developers to bypass standard, lengthy governance processes to quickly fix critical vulnerabilities.

These paths are carefully designed with security controls, such as timelocks or multisig requirements, to prevent them from being used for unauthorized code changes. Having a clear emergency upgrade path is essential for responding to zero-day exploits.

It ensures that the protocol can be secured without waiting for the full governance cycle to complete.