Anza proposes to implement a penalty mechanism in Solana, where part of the staked tokens of the penalized validator will be destroyed

Anza has proposed two proposals to implement slashing in the network, mainly to punish validators for so-called "duplicate blocks", that is, the same block is created twice. Anza has not yet decided on the specific economic details of the slashing mechanism, but the authors of SIMD suggest destroying (or functionally abolishing) the staked tokens that are punished. Anza's Ashwin Sekar also proposed a parabolic penalty curve: if 5% of the validator's staked tokens violate the rules, 1% of its staked tokens will be destroyed; if 33% of the staked tokens violate the rules, all staked tokens will be punished. Sekar explained in a validator discussion that Ethereum's penalty curve is linear. Sekar also said that the penalty proposal is still in the early stages and such an update will not be launched until the end of summer 2025 at the earliest. (blockworks)