# kaal:claim:3931933-011

**Claim.** Publishing each validator's uptime and rewarding status to the community on a weekly basis coincided with active Casper testnet nodes falling below 800, in a period of already volatile validator participation.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- 2021 Casper testnet incentivized phases

**Source quote.**

> In the early testnet days, validator participation was volatile with validators joining and others leaving regularly. At some point during 2021, the active Caser testnet nodes fell under 800 after the uptimes/rewarding-status of each validator node was reported to the community on a weekly basis.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake* (2021), Testnets as remedies to platform centralization, page 4

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3931933

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `55a71cdfceb96fadefba1f2fed9563b588825378c91aff644ee7faaccdf31204` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Hybrid%20Secure%20Proof%20of%20Stake.pdf

**Failure mode.** attrition after reward status disclosure  (family: governance-participation-collapse)

**Topics.** disclosure, consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** casper-network, testnet, transparency-backfire, validator-attrition, reward-eligibility

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