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How can restaked validators avoid slashing during contentious forks or protocol upgrades due to version mismatches? The primary defense is rigorous operational procedure: clear communication from AVS teams on client compatibility, staggered rollouts where operators upgrade in waves, and the use of monitoring tools to detect version mismatches before they cause forks. Technologically, AVS clients can implement version-gated state transitions, where the network rejects messages from non-upgraded peers before a hard fork, preventing them from causing a slashable equivocation. The most conservative strategy for an operator is to temporarily voluntarily exit from high-risk AVSs during an upgrade window, forgoing rewards to eliminate slashing risk entirely, then re-enter once the network has stabilized on the new version.

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