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How will epoch boundary changes affect slash risk? Epoch boundary changes, such as those in Ethereum's consensus mechanism, are moments of elevated but managed risk. They are when the validator set is reconfigured. A bug in the epoch transition logic could theoretically cause a large portion of the network to have a divergent view of the active validator set, leading to mass equivocation. However, these changes are implemented with extreme care, extensive testing on testnets, and are accompanied by a community-wide "watch" for anomalies. While the risk is non-zero, the rigorous processes surrounding these upgrades are designed to make slash risk during these events lower than the risk from day-to-day operational errors or novel economic attacks on individual AVSs.

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