Scroll DAO Moves to Dissolve Security Council After Major Dapp Migration to Optimism

TL;DR:

• Scroll announced the dissolution of its Security Council and staff cuts within the DAO to reduce its operational costs.
• The decision follows Ether.fi’s migration to Optimism, which drained $160 million in TVL and $13 million in annualized fees.
• L2BEAT detected that the platform artificially inflated its network fees by 1,280% over six days, generating over $50,000 in excessive costs.

Scroll, the Ethereum layer-2 blockchain network, announced an operational restructuring that includes the dissolution of its Security Council and the reduction of roles within its decentralized autonomous organization. Protocol control will pass to an internally managed multisig, known as the Scroll Admin multisig. The transition is scheduled for the next ten days, subject to the current council’s approval.

The measure was communicated through a governance update published by a core contributor to the project. The text is direct: “After evaluating the cost of the Security Council relative to its actual use over the past quarters, we believe that its continuation is no longer justified.” Beyond the council, four roles within the DAO will conclude on April 30, including Marketing Operations, Program Coordination, Accountability Lead, and Accountability Operator.

Ether.fi’s Migration Changed the Numbers Inside Scroll

The financial trigger behind these adjustments was the departure of Ether.fi, the network’s top revenue-generating dapp. The crypto neobank migrated to OP Mainnet on Optimism in February 2026, taking with it approximately 300,000 user accounts and over $160 million in total value locked. According to DeFiLlama data, its exit represented around $13 million in annualized fees and left Scroll’s TVL at around $23 million.

In that context, an analysis by L2BEAT revealed an episode that damaged the network’s reputation: over six days in early April, Scroll multiplied by 1,280 the fees it charges for publishing data on Ethereum mainnet. The adjustment forced users to pay over $50,000 in excessive costs for operations that would ordinarily have cost around $280. The measure was reversed on April 9, and the team offered no public explanation for the episode.

The project clarified that the contracts affected by the transition — ScrollOwner, AgoraGovernor, and the Timelock contracts — will be modified in a transparent and on-chain verifiable manner. The Scroll Foundation formally endorsed all announced changes. The DAO, according to the update, is not disappearing but rather reducing its operational footprint to adapt to current priorities, with the expectation of scaling again as the network’s product ecosystem grows.