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# Emergency

In addition to the standard ops and treasury multisigs, Ambient governance includes an *emergency authority* reserved for unexpected cases when user funds are in immediate danger of loss. 

Emergency authority is delegated at the `CrocPolicy` contract and has the following powers:

* Force the DEX contract into *safe mode*, where all user operations (including swaps, mints, burns, deposits and withdraws) are frozen until treasury authority disables safe mode.
* Forcibly uninstall a policy oracle
* Standard ops multisig abilities

Emergency authority power is delegated to the treasury multisig and has the ability to execute with a 30 second timelock for the ability to execute near immediately.