Permissions Audit for Protocols

Review the roles, permissions, timelocks, and admin paths that govern your protocol. Reduce control risk and build confidence in how your protocol is configured and operated.

Permission design is one of the highest-risk surfaces in DeFi

As protocols evolve, roles, multisigs, timelocks, emergency powers, and admin paths often accumulate piecemeal. The result is a fragmented permission architecture that is difficult to reason about and audit, harder to change safely, and concentrates risk around specific actors and critical actions.

Aragon reviews how privileged authority is configured across your protocol end to end. We map the relationship between roles, permissions, and control paths, identify concentrated authority and human-dependent failure modes, and recommend practical changes to strengthen the system. This leads to a protocol control layer that is better positioned to earn confidence from users, partners, and capital.

How the audit works

01 / Permission & Control Mapping

Full visibility into your control layer

Map roles, admin relationships, multisigs, timelocks, emergency powers, and control paths across contracts so it is clear who can authorize sensitive changes and under what constraints.

02 / Risk & Depenceny Review

Surface failure modes

Identify concentrated authority, person-dependent control paths, bypassable safeguards, and single points of failure that expose the protocol to operational and security risk.

03 / Prioritized Improvement Plan

Practical recommendations for priority fixes

Focus on the permissions and control paths that carry the most risk, with practical recommendations to improve security without overhauling the system.

From hidden risk to credible control

Clearer authority and accountability

Make the logic of control easier to reason about so sensitive changes are easier to review and audit.

Stronger operational foundations

Replace fragmented, person-dependent setups with structured control systems that are easier to maintain and evolve.

Earn trust from users and capital

Protocols with clear, well-communicated control design are better positioned to build confidence with users, partners, and long-term capital.

What you receive

Permission map

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Risk assessment

Identification of concentrated authority, ineffective safeguards, and single points of failure.

Implementation guidance

Concrete recommendations to strengthen your control design, whether you are live or preparing to launch

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