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 <p class="is-style-lead">A multi-platform staking solution Lido faces its first serious penalty after its validators misbehaved.</p>
 <p>Lido, a decentralized finance protocol for staking cryptocurrencies, faces a penalty worth 23 ETH (around $35,500) after 20 of its validators have been slashed.</p>
 <p>In an X post on Thursday, Oct. 12, Lido confirmed the incident, saying the slashed <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="validator" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/validator.html">validator</a>s have been operated by Launchnodes, a pre-synchronized Geth node for staking, which is part of the Lido protocol.</p>
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    <p lang="en" dir="ltr">20 slashings have occurred relating to validators operated by the @launchnodes node operators as a part of the Lido protocol. <br><br>Launchnodes and DAO contributors are investigating. <br><br>The validators are offline and slashings have ceased while the root cause is being investigated.</p>— Lido (@LidoFinance) October 11, 2023
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 <p>No further details were given so far. Launchnodes is investigating “the root cause” of the issue while the slashed <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="validator" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/validator.html">validator</a>s are offline. The team behind the protocol reassured users they are “not affected apart from a reduction in the daily rewards that will be reflected in tomorrow’s rebase.”</p>
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 <p>As per Lido’s calculations, the penalty represents about 2.25% of average daily protocol rewards (or 0.00023% of the total value locked in the protocol). The project also noted Launchnodes “immediately expressed their desire to compensate stakers at the soonest possible time.” It means that stakers will see “no reduced rewards for the day resulting from the outage and slashing.”</p>
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    <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Once future penalties and missed rewards for the slashed validators are finalised (i.e. the validators are withdrawn), a final calculation will be made and @launchnodes have indicated that they will also cover this amount resulting in no lost rewards for stETH holders.</p>— Lido (@LidoFinance) October 12, 2023
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 <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="what-is-slashing-on-ethereum">What is slashing on Ethereum</h2>
 <p>Slashing is a severe form of <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="penalty" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/penalty.html">penalty</a> in the Ethereum blockchain that results in the forceful removal of a <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="validator" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/validator.html">validator</a> from the network and an associated loss of their staked ETH when a <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="validator" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/validator.html">validator</a> breaches the proof-of-stake consensus <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="rules" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/rules.html">rules</a>.</p>
 <p>However, this practice is pretty rare in the ecosystem. In early 2023, a pseudonymous Ethereum community consultant Superphiz pointed out that only 0.04% of Ethereum validators have been slashed over the past three years.</p>
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<p>Source: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://thebittimes.com/lido-faces-35k-penalty-as-20-validators-violate-ethereum-s-rules-tbt66134.html">https://thebittimes.com/lido-faces-35k-penalty-as-20-validators-violate-ethereum-s-rules-tbt66134.html</a></p>

Lido faces $35k penalty as 20 validators violate Ethereum’s rules

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