CoinVoice has recently learned that Anza has proposed two measures to implement a penalty mechanism (slashing) in the network, primarily aimed at punishing validators for so-called 'duplicate blocks', which refers to the situation where the same block is created twice. Anza has yet to decide on the specific economic details of the penalty mechanism, but the authors of SIMD suggest destroying (or functionally nullifying) the staked tokens that are penalized.
Anza's Ashwin Sekar also proposed a parabolic penalty curve: if 5% of a validator's staked tokens are in violation, then 1% of their staked tokens will be destroyed; if 33% of the staked tokens are in violation, then all staked tokens will be punished. Sekar explained in a validator discussion that Ethereum's penalty curve is linear. Sekar also mentioned that this penalty proposal is still in the early stages and such an update would not be released until the summer of 2025 at the earliest. [Original link]
