The Art of Slashing
Consensys’s glossary of Ethereum 2.0 terms eloquently describes the act of “slashing” as one of Ethereum’s new processes created to maintain blockchain security. They state that Ethereum 2.0’s consensus mechanism has a couple of rules that are designed to prevent attacks on the network. Any validator, an actor that proposes and attests new blocks, found to have broken these rules will be slashed and ejected from the network. According to Codefi, there are three ways Read more about The Art of Slashing[…]