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Consumer Initiated Slashing | Interchain Security

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A consumer chain is essentially a regular Cosmos-SDK based chain that uses the Interchain Security module to achieve economic security by stake deposited on the provider chain, instead of its own chain. In essence, provider chain and consumer chains are different networks (different infrastructures) that are bound together by the provider's validator set. By being bound to the provider's validator set, a consumer chain inherits the economic security guarantees of the provider chain (in terms of total stake). To maintain the proof of stake model, the consumer chain is able to send evidence of infractions (double signing and downtime) to the provider chain so the offending validators can be penalized. Any infraction committed on any of the consumer chains is reflected on the provider and all other consumer chains. In the current implementation there are two important changes brought by the Interchain Security module. Downtime infractions are reported by consumer chains and are acted upon

Version: Next On this page Consumer Initiated Slashing A consumer chain is essentially a regular Cosmos-SDK based chain that uses the ICS consumer module to achieve economic security by stake deposited on the provider chain, instead of its own chain. In essence, the provider chain and consumer chains are different networks (different infrastructures) that share a subset of the provider's validator set. By being bound to the provider's validator set, a consumer chain inherits some of the economic security guarantees of the provider chain. To maintain the proof of stake model, the consumer chain

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