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Have past outages caused cascades across AVSs? The restaking ecosystem is too new for documented, economic cascade events across multiple AVSes. However, the preconditions for such a cascade have been demonstrated in other contexts. The May 2023 incident where a bug in the Prysm client caused a significant portion of the Ethereum network to fail to finalize is a canonical example. In a restaking context, a similar event could have caused mass liveness failures on the Beacon Chain, which could have then triggered slashing conditions on various AVSes that depend on Ethereum liveness or specific attestations. While this specific cascade didn't occur, it illustrates the pathway. The ecosystem is now building with the explicit awareness of these interdependencies, aiming to design systems that can contain, rather than amplify, such failures.

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