Blockchain

How do I slash a restaker whose off-chain output is wrong but unprovable on-chain?

Opportunità

EigenLayer activated slashing in April 2025 with roughly $15 billion restaked across 40 AVSs. As of mid-2026, zero slashing events have been recorded. Most AVS tasks, including oracle feeds, off-chain compute, and AI inference, produce outputs that an on-chain verifier cannot falsify without re-executing the same workload at equivalent cost. The fallback mechanism is EIGEN token-weighted social slashing, which requires a supermajority vote and is gameable by any operator with sufficient stake concentration. Additionally, operators must actively opt into each AVS's slashing terms rather than inheriting them automatically, so the security model accumulates coverage incrementally and unevenly across the network.

Perché è importante

Restaking security that cannot be enforced against the most common class of faults collects a risk premium without delivering the protection, and protocols that build on top of it inherit a guarantee that cannot be redeemed.

Come valuto l'opportunità

L'Opportunity Score è la mia valutazione personale, non una misurazione: quanto fa male, con quale frequenza colpisce e quanto poco esiste per risolverlo oggi. Un punteggio più alto significa che lo ritengo più degno di essere sviluppato.

Gravità9/10

Quanto dolore provoca quando si manifesta.

Frequenza7/10

Quanto spesso le persone ci si imbattono davvero.

Spazio bianco8/10

Quanti pochi strumenti validi esistono oggi per affrontarlo.