According to PANews, Solana developer store Anza proposed two proposals to consider implementing a penalty mechanism in the network. If implemented, it will punish validators who slow down the network, but will introduce risks for SOL stakers.
The proposed penalty mechanism targets “duplicate blocks”. Anza has not yet decided on the specific economic details, but it proposes to destroy the staked tokens that are punished. Anza’s Ashwin Sekar proposed a parabolic penalty curve, where if 5% of the staked tokens violate the rules, 1% will be destroyed; if 33% violate the rules, all will be destroyed.
Anza’s proposal received early recognition from the Solana technical community, but increased staker risk, similar to the “penalty cascade” risk of Ethereum’s re-staking platform EigenLayer.
