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# Safety Switch

## Overview

The purpose of Safety Switch Plugin is to add a way of mitigating potential exploits of Integral. This is achieved by providing a functionality of stopping a certain pool(s) or all the pools (which have the plugin connected).

Briefly, a security vendor will have the ability to disable swap/flash/burn/mint operations on pools when they detect a security threat. Further, another authority (e.g. DEX admin) will be able to enable either burns only (liquidity withdrawals) or all operations.

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## Details

### Security Registry

There is a Security Registry contract which is accessed by Safety Switches of different pools to get a *status* of it’s pool. *Status* might be equal to *ENABLED*, *DISABLED* (all operations with hooks are disabled) *or BURN\_ONLY* (only liquidity decreasing is allowed).

### Safety Switch

Pause works by executing `revert` in *beforeSwap*, *beforeModifyPos* и *beforeFlash* hooks.

To disable swaps, flashes and liquidity modification it is necessary for certain flags in a pool to be set. Otherwise hooks will not be triggered.

If the status is set to *BURN\_ONLY* the Safety Switch will only `revert` in *beforeModifyPos* hook if liquidity is greater than 0.

## *How to configure Safety Switch*

Security Registry is introduced to provide a single entrypoint of a “security system”. It has the following methods:

* setPoolsStatus(address\[] pools, Status\[] new\_statuses) - a method to update *status* of provided pools
* setGlobalStatus(Status) - a method to set a *status* of all pools at once
* getPoolStatus(address pool) - a method to get a specific pool’s *status*

If a *globalStatus* is set to *DISABLED* then all the pools are *DISABLED*

If a *globalStatus* is set to *BURN\_ONLY* then all the pools are *BURN\_ONLY*

If a *globalStatus* is set to *ENABLED* then each pool’s *status* is defined by it’s own *status*

### Roles

There are two roles: *Guard* and *Admin*

*Guard* can only set the *status* to *DISABLED*

*Admin* (Factory Owner might be used) can set any *status*