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What’s the false-positive rate in AVS testnets vs mainnet? The false-positive rate in testnets is fundamentally unrepresentative of the mainnet rate and is almost certainly lower. Testnets operate in a controlled, lower-stakes environment. Operators are more likely to be sophisticated early adopters, and the network conditions are less chaotic and adversarial. Most importantly, the economic penalty for failure is zero, which means the intense pressure and complex interactions of real value are absent. A bug that would cause a mainnet FP might not even be noticed on a testnet. Therefore, while a testnet FP rate of zero is a good sign, it provides limited assurance for mainnet deployment. The true, higher FP rate will only be discovered under real economic conditions, which is why a phased mainnet launch with capped penalties is a critical strategy for risk mitigation.

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