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Sreeram Kannan: EigenLayer – The Ethereum Restaking Protocol

Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies

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Do I Have a Recurse if I'm Slash?

If I'm evil and I build a service on top of eigenlayer that uses a malicious contract to slash unsuspecting stakers, do they have a recourse? Can they do something against this? Absolutely. There is a veto for slashing run by like a reputed committee. And you can think of basically slashing needs approval both by the contract and by this committee in order to actually pass. So that's the trust model: You're trusting one of these two to work correctly to protect against slashing errors. If both are malicious, then that is a problem.

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