Upgradable Smart Contracts
EIP-2535 Diamond Smart Contracts
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Questions
Which upgradeability pattern — UUPS, transparent proxy, or diamond — best balances upgrade safety with gas efficiency for a protocol expecting frequent feature additions?
- At what TVL does the risk of an upgrade being exploited through a malicious admin key become sufficiently high to require timelock governance?
- How does upgradeability change the trust model for a DeFi user — and which user category (early adopter versus late majority) is more tolerant of non-upgradeable contracts?
- Which upgradeability anti-pattern — storage collision, uninitialized proxies, or delegatecall to untrusted contracts — is most commonly introduced by developers implementing their first upgradeable system?