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Slashing

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A penalty mechanism in staking systems that destroys or confiscates part of a validator's stake for protocol violations. It is designed to make attacks economically costly.

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Proof of Stake Consensus
...uity that would otherwise make time-based lockouts vulnerable to manipulation. Slashing is the mechanism by which validators are penalized for violating protocol rules...

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