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Are non‑AVS parts (network, time sync) a common root cause?
Absolutely. The most common root causes of non-malicious slashing are often not in the AVS logic itself, but in the non-AVS operational environment. These include:
Network Issues: Partitions, latency spikes, or ISP outages preventing message propagation.
Time Synchronization (NTP) Failures: Clock drift causing a validator to sign messages for an incorrect epoch or slot.
Infrastructure Failures: Server crashes, power outages, or hardware faults.
Misconfiguration: Incorrect key management or software settings.
These foundational operational failures are agnostic to the specific AVS being run and can therefore cause correlated problems across an operator's entire portfolio, highlighting that security is as much about classic DevOps reliability as it is about cryptoeconomic design.
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