ScopeLift CEO Ben DiFrancesco stated that governance tokens must maintain a market value higher than the potential gains an attacker could realize by stealing protocol assets. Speaking on Uneasy Money, DiFrancesco emphasized this economic threshold as a critical security requirement for decentralized protocols. DiFrancesco further noted that "the regulatory excuse is going away," suggesting that protocols can no longer rely on regulatory uncertainty to justify inadequate security economics. The comments highlight the growing expectation that governance token valuations must serve as a functional backstop against malicious attacks.