A penalty where validators lose part of their staked tokens for misbehavior.
A penalty where validators lose part of their staked tokens for misbehavior. Going offline, double-signing, or other protocol violations can trigger slashing. It's how proof-of-stake networks punish bad actors.
Locking up tokens to help secure a proof-of-stake network and earn rewards.
A node operator who validates transactions and creates blocks on a proof-of-stake network.
A consensus mechanism where validators stake tokens as collateral to secure the network.
Application Binary Interface.
A way to make crypto wallets behave more like normal apps by turning every account into a smart contract.
The Ethereum standard for account abstraction without changing the core protocol.
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