Blockchain

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

Kans

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.

Waarom het belangrijk is

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.

Hoe ik de kans beoordeel

De Opportunity Score is mijn eigen inschatting, geen meting: hoe ernstig het pijn doet, hoe vaak het toeslaat, en hoe weinig er vandaag de dag bestaat om het op te lossen. Hoger betekent dat ik denk dat het meer de moeite waard is om te bouwen.

Ernst9/10

Hoeveel pijn het veroorzaakt wanneer het zich voordoet.

Frequentie7/10

Hoe vaak mensen er daadwerkelijk tegenaan lopen.

Witruimte8/10

Hoe weinig goede tools er vandaag de dag voor bestaan.