Slashing occurs when validators act against consensus rules, often by publishing contradictory attestations.
He said:
“These validators published conflicting attestations.”
Vanloon further agreed that the issue might have stemmed from the impacted firms’ committing a blunder while migrating a validator.
Meanwhile, the Ethereum developer stressed that the validators must keep operating until they exit the network despite the fines.
According to him:
“Slashed validators are obligated to continue performing their duties until they are exited. If they are offline during the exit queue, then they will have liveness penalties applied. The slashing penalty has already been applied so it’s just the liveness penalties from here.”
These cases highlight how operational errors can trigger immediate financial consequences in a system that enforces consensus through economic discipline.
