👥 Signer Management: Add & Remove Safely
Learn how to rotate signers without losing funds
Secure DAO funds with multi-signature wallets
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Setting up a multi-sig is easy. Operating it securely for years is hard. Most breaches come from operational failures: poor signer selection, lax procedures, no monitoring. Here's how professional DAOs manage multi-sig treasuries long-term.
🎮 Interactive: Best Practices Guide
Explore operational best practices across the multi-sig lifecycle: signer selection, daily operations, rotation, and monitoring.
Signer Selection Criteria
Who should be a multi-sig signer?
Established identity in crypto space, public track record, skin in the game (token holdings, protocol involvement)
Spread across countries/timezones. Prevents single-jurisdiction legal attacks and improves operational coverage
No more than 1-2 signers from same company/entity. Prevents coordinated internal attacks or single point of failure
Understands multi-sig operations, can verify transactions, knows operational security basics (hardware wallets, phishing detection)
- ❌ All signers from same company (single point of failure)
- ❌ Anonymous signers (no accountability, easy to bribe/compromise)
- ❌ Signers without technical understanding (can't verify transactions)
- ❌ Too many signers from same jurisdiction (legal vulnerability)
📋 Multi-Sig Operational Checklist
- □ Vet all signers (reputation, technical ability, geography)
- □ Document roles and responsibilities
- □ Distribute hardware wallets to all signers
- □ Test signing process with small transaction
- □ Set up monitoring and alerting
- □ Create emergency procedures document
- □ Public proposal 48hrs before execution
- □ All signers simulate transaction before signing
- □ Voice confirmation for >$100K transactions
- □ Monthly signer health checks
- □ Quarterly security audits
- □ Annual signer rotation (1-2 signers)
💡 Key Insight
The difference between secure and insecure multi-sigs isn't the threshold number—it's operational discipline over time. A 3-of-5 with rigorous procedures (hardware wallets, transaction simulation, public proposals, regular audits) is safer than a 7-of-9 with sloppy operations (hot wallets, blind signing, no monitoring). Security is a practice, not a configuration. Discipline compounds; complacency kills.