# Slashing risk

`kaal:entity:slashing-risk`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `slashing-risk`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2018 to 2025.

**2018**

- [3125827-024](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125827-024) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- A healthy expertise will have near unanimous consensus on every evidence of work validation pool, and that very unanimity creates an impediment to development, because honest members risk their stakes by voting for untested changes.
  > A healthy expertise will continually have near-unanimous consensus on every evidence-of-work validation pool. This creates an impediment to development.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Secure Proof of Stake Protocol (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125827

**2025**

- [5887242-021](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5887242-021) [mechanism/argued] -- For contentious proposals involving genuine legal or technological paradigm shifts, participants must weigh the long-term value of a contrarian view against immediate slashing risk, so only strongly evidenced minority positions survive.
  > Contentious proposals—genuine legal or technological paradigm shifts—require participants to weigh the long-term value of their contrarian view against immediate slashing risk, ensuring only strongly evidenced minority positions survive.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242

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