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Are gas-limit proposals able to hamper connectivity and trigger slashes? While a governance proposal cannot directly change the Ethereum base layer's gas limit, an AVS's governance could potentially manipulate parameters of its own on-chain transactions to create a connectivity crisis. For instance, if an AVS requires frequent on-chain heartbeats, governance could set the gas cost for these transactions so high that they become prohibitively expensive for operators during network congestion. This could prevent a critical mass of operators from submitting their required proofs, leading to mass liveness slashing. This would be a form of economic denial-of-service attack enacted through governance, using the underlying blockchain's fee market as a weapon against the AVS's own operators.

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