Delegating Slashing Risk: Differentiating Amounts and Validator Preferences with Babylon
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Cryptoeconomic security has been an extremely hot topic as of recent. With the rise of restaking and the general concept of “extending economic security” to new applications/services, we have seen some of the brightest minds in the space dedicating their career to this idea.
In today’s piece, we take a closer look at Babylon Protocol, a protocol that introduces staking to the Bitcoin community and has a focus on extending Bitcoin’s economic security. We were joined by Sankha Banerjee, chief economist of Babylon, to address this topic.
We talk about their integration which allows Bitcoin holders to lock their coins on the blockchain, participating actively in PoS systems and even taking on slashing risks in exchange for potential yields and upside. We discussed the technicals of their time lock mechanism that stakes Bitcoin while also providing economic support to other networks within ecosystems like Cosmos.
Furthermore, we dove into the nitty gritty of slashing mechanism employed by Babylon, which is is designed to safeguard the network’s consensus and integrity by penalizing faults such as double-signing through advanced cryptographic techniques. We went pretty deep here for 5-10 minutes.
Finally, towards the end, we asked Sankha if economic security is a meme or not.
We really enjoyed his response and this conversation as a whole!
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