- Ethereum Founder proposes an anti-correlation incentive program to bolster decentralization in staking.
- Vitalik Buterin intends to impose penalties for mundane mistakes such as missing an attestation.
- The theory involved is the replication of mistakes in a decentralized blockchain network.
In a recent blog post, Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin proposed an “anti-correlation incentive” program to bolster decentralization in staking. The proposal intends to bring a penalty to validators’ “mundane failures” such as missing an attestation.
Notably, the theory that led Buterin to propose the anti-correlation incentive program is the replication of mistakes in a decentralized blockchain environment. To be more specific, in a network, any mistake a single actor makes is more likely to be repeated by the other “identities” that the actor controls. Thus, to minimize such issues, Ethereum introduced the anti-correlation incentive program. Pinpointing the aim of the program, Buterin narrated,
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