Most protocols are resilient onchain and fragile offchain.
They rely on a handful of signers, coordinators, or infrastructure leads to keep systems running.
This guide helps organizations design rotation schedules, failover logic, and hardened contributor roles that reduce operational fragility and increase institutional confidence.
A framework for reducing human single points of failure in protocol operations:
Role mapping and dependency modeling
Quorum disruption and signer unavailability planning
Offboarding and revocation paths
Rotation scheduling and organizational hardening
Threat simulation for governance, ops, and infra roles
One unresponsive signer.
One missing governance operator.
One undocumented role.
That's all it takes to stall upgrades, freeze governance, or lose access to core infrastructure.
This guide helps organizations enforce operational discipline across every critical human role in their system.
Cantina provides structured audits and incident-readiness architecture for high-value protocols.
Our work includes organizational threat modeling, contributor rotation planning, and Incident Command simulations across governance, infra, and access layers.
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.
