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Validators only add transactions to the ledger. What I was talking about is the slasher, which makes sure nodes are behaving correctly.
by rakoo 4y ago
Validators only add transactions to the ledger. What I was talking about is the slasher, which makes sure nodes are behaving correctly.
- pa7x1 4y agoWhen a validator adds a block to the ledger it can include evidence of slashable offenses. Including evidence of a slashable offense gets rewarded so every validator is incentivized to include them. Further reading: https://eth2book.info/altair/part2/incentives/slashing#the-value-of-reporting-a-slashing https://eth2book.info/altair/part2/incentives/slashing#the-v... There is no separate notion of a slasher, everyone gets to provide slashing evidence when they build a block. I don't understand why you build such a weak straw-man and the push it forward as if it was the truth without even checking how the system operates.
- rakoo 4y agoThe initial post talks about slashers as some special entities so I was talking about them