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# How to Use Instant Promotion

> Emergency promotion for copycat or high-risk situations

## Overview

The DAO can instantly promote contracts to production, bypassing the 3-day delay. This is an emergency power for protecting the ecosystem.

<Warning>
  Use instant promotion only for genuine emergencies.
</Warning>

## When to Use

### Copycat Discovery

A mainnet contract mirrors an attackable BattleChain contract:

1. Whitehat finds vulnerability on BattleChain
2. Someone deploys identical contract to mainnet
3. Mainnet contract is now vulnerable
4. **Action**: Instant promote to stop further disclosure

### TVL Surge

Unexpected liquidity growth creates unreasonable risk:

1. Protocol deployed with \$100K TVL
2. TVL grows to \$10M unexpectedly
3. Risk/reward ratio changes dramatically
4. **Action**: Consider instant promotion if protocol requests

### Protocol Emergency

Protocol discovers critical issue and needs to exit attack mode:

1. Protocol finds vulnerability themselves
2. Need to patch without whitehats exploiting
3. **Action**: Instant promote to protect users

## Execute Instant Promotion

```solidity theme={null}
attackRegistry.instantPromote(agreementAddress);
```

Valid from these states:

* `ATTACK_REQUESTED` → skips attack phase entirely
* `UNDER_ATTACK` → ends attack immediately
* `PROMOTION_REQUESTED` → bypasses 3-day delay

## Effects

* State immediately becomes `PRODUCTION`
* Safe Harbor protection ends
* Contracts are no longer attackable

## Communication Template

Document and communicate the action:

```
EMERGENCY INSTANT PROMOTION

Agreement: 0x1234...
Protocol: [Name]
Previous State: UNDER_ATTACK
New State: PRODUCTION

Reason: [Copycat detected / TVL surge / Protocol emergency]

Details: [Specific circumstances]

Actions taken:
- Instant promotion at block [number]
- Protocol notified
- [Other actions]
```

<Card title="Governance Parameters" icon="sliders" href="/reference/governance-parameters">
  Understand DAO-controlled parameters
</Card>