# Ethereum’s $150 Million Blockchain DAO Fund Opens To Critical Analysis by Security Experts **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [May 31, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/ethereum-s-150-million-blockchain-dao-fund-opens-to-critical-analysis-by-security-experts/2103 "2016-05-31T17:40:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidpbrown](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forums.counterparty.io/davidpbrown/32/8_2.png) [@davidpbrown](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/davidpbrown)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/ethereum-s-150-million-blockchain-dao-fund-opens-to-critical-analysis-by-security-experts/2103/1 "2016-05-31T17:40:20Z")
[Ethereum’s $150 Million Blockchain DAO Fund Opens To Critical Analysis by Security Experts](http://www.the-blockchain.com/2016/05/30/ethereums-blockchain-dao-fund-opens-critical-analysis-security-experts/) > Three members of Hacking Distributed – Dino Mark, Vlad Zamfir and Emin Gün Sirer just released the [first draft of a research paper](http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/05/27/dao-call-for-moratorium/) that analyzed The DAO and its voting mechanism. This paper identifies problems with The DAO’s mechanism design that incentivise investors to behave strategically – that is, at odds with truthful voting on their preferences and then outline potential attacks against The DAO made possible by these behaviors. ---
**Author:** ![something](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forums.counterparty.io/something/32/240_2.png) [@something](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/something)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/ethereum-s-150-million-blockchain-dao-fund-opens-to-critical-analysis-by-security-experts/2103/2 "2016-06-01T04:15:02Z")
In hindsight Counterparty’s decision to not rush EVM on CP due to security and stability concerns was a great call (for which they didn’t get much (any?) credit even in the CP community).