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What happens if most validators become non-responsive without unstaking? The network can’t create new blocks then?
by SilasX 4y ago
What happens if most validators become non-responsive without unstaking? The network can’t create new blocks then?
- DennisP 4y agoThe network would still create new blocks but wouldn't finalize them. Finalizing means they can't be undone without destroying a large percentage of the stake. Without finalization, you still reach a point where it's very unlikely that the block will be undone. The non-responsive stakers would gradually lose their stake. The penalty for going offline is normally small, but if most validators go offline at once it's considerably larger. Their stake will shrink, until they don't hold most of the stake anymore and the network can start finalizing again.
- ChadNauseam 4y agoFinalized blocks can never be undone, it’s forbidden by the protocol. Once your client sees that a block is finalized, it will never revert it. (This makes the network a bit subjective, so hopefully it’ll come up rarely)