Multisigs govern high-impact functions across DeFi infrastructure - upgrades, treasury, admin permissions, and protocol-level changes.
This checklist helps organizations evaluate whether their multisig structure, signer distribution, custody model, and access lifecycle are designed to meet operational, security, and institutional requirements.
A structured evaluation framework for secure key and access management:
Multisig signer design, threshold modeling, and emergency controls
Key custody best practices including HSM, MPC, and recovery paths
Rotation schedules, offboarding procedures, and access revocation
Real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and audit trails
Contingency planning for quorum loss or signer failure
Compromised keys and mismanaged multisigs have led to governance corruption, stolen funds, and halted operations.
As protocols scale, key management must mature.
This checklist provides a practical structure for identifying gaps and enforcing controls that meet the demands of secure, production-grade systems.
This guide is designed for:
Cantina conducts structured access control reviews, key management assessments, and infrastructure audits for high-value protocols. Our work includes signer threat modeling, custody architecture validation, and key rotation planning for institutional integrations.
If your organization is preparing for due diligence, integration, or regulated engagement, we can help apply this framework to your architecture and operations. Cantina scopes institutional reviews that cover both code and resilience.
