Chainlink
알림 체계 기반 스테이킹
Context
This figure appears in Section 9 (Economics and Cryptoeconomics) during the description of the staking mechanism with alerting in Section 9.4. It illustrates the three-step process by which the watchdog alerting mechanism detects and penalizes incorrect oracle reports: majority misbehavior, watchdog escalation, and deposit slashing. The figure makes the abstract incentive mechanism concrete by showing a specific scenario where bribed nodes produce an incorrect report.
What This Figure Shows
The figure shows a four-step process: (1) a majority of first-tier oracle nodes are corrupted or bribed and emit an incorrect report value instead of the correct value; (2) a watchdog node detects the incorrect output and sends an alert to the second-tier committee; (3) the second-tier committee determines and emits the correct report value; and (4) corrupted nodes forfeit their deposits, with all slashed deposits awarded to the watchdog node. This concentrated reward structure—giving the full slashed amount to a single alerter rather than distributing it—is the key innovation that produces super-linear staking impact by making it prohibitively expensive for an adversary to bribe every potential watchdog.
Significance
This figure makes the staking mechanism's core incentive logic tangible: honest watchdog nodes are strongly motivated to alert on malfeasance because they receive the full slashed deposits of all misbehaving nodes. This concentration of reward is precisely what forces an adversary to budget quadratically rather than linearly in the number of nodes, making the mechanism robust against well-resourced attackers.
