On-Chain Risk Controls

These terms describe how protocols manage upgrades, emergencies, and data integrity without promising safety.

Timelock

A timelock delays privileged changes (like upgrades) to give users time to review and react.

An emergency pause is a mechanism that can temporarily halt certain protocol actions during incidents.

An oracle provides off-chain or cross-system data (like prices) to a smart contract that cannot fetch it natively.

Oracle manipulation is an attack where an adversary influences the data a contract uses, such as price feeds, to trigger profitable outcomes.