Proposal: refund slashed collators during relay chain incident

Astar Network (Polkadot) Approved proposals
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This proposal aims to refund Astar collators who were mistakenly slashed during the Polkadot “dispute” incident.
During this time, a lot of Astar blocks were rejected by Polkadot validators while the collators could do nothing to fix it.
Details of the incident here: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/issues/6862

Period: 11/03/2023 15:00 UTC to 13/03/2023 09:00 UTC

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Number of slashes: 7

Event ID Block Block Timestamp Collator
3122700-3 3122700 2023-03-12 21:51:48 ZsApUEqShfZw5nwmq8LF97FtuM27rx3u6x7JEAXYfhXjkeJ
3122100-3 3122100 2023-03-12 14:23:27 XaiRFuhVStRJHYGKKvdM6QDzW2jywPdgPsx82y9yZ8TChcN
3120000-19 3120000 2023-03-11 22:34:02 ZGMNWCH224EpHXpLpJwD2jia438xeuH5w6UkCT57Gun1vKj
3120000-15 3120000 2023-03-11 22:34:02 XcXymBRUQETEcfEkTsPu7Pz5nothamkcsq1jQJqXebvVeUP
3120000-11 3120000 2023-03-11 22:34:02 aqSaD92kSi9tMckcQc7u6YcwWfEBHFbTRNkAkEMH8YxvKaJ
3120000-7 3120000 2023-03-11 22:34:02 aqhYttD9UkNfupQVR1rcNTj3iRB1dXdvFYZJSxcd6U8zN8w
3120000-3 3120000 2023-03-11 22:34:02 ZtjZbrLZkityYVHr5W76YP3FQNr31WVT8XoySC5hT3kj81m

Amount slashed per collator: 32000 ASTR
Total amount: 224000 ASTR

6 Likes
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Refund Astar Collators
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I wanted to ask why only 7 collators were slashed if there was a mistake caused by Polkadot. Given that there are many permissionless collators registered in the network, why were other collators not affected and able to continue producing blocks?

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The Polkadot validators were randomly rejecting a lot of blocks.
Collators are assigned round robin to collate blocks, they have ~4 slots / era.
If collators get all their blocks rejected during 2 eras, they get slashed.
Others were able to produce 1 block / era or something around that.

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Completely agree on this proposal! Fortunately I was not affected on Astar, but I was affected on Shiden and I know that was an ExpectChaos weekend!

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I totally agree with the proposal, and glad to know that Astar is doing fine overall, I know a few other parachains got affected

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@bLd759

The proposal is approved. Please proceed.

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I agree on this, it can be a good idea

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All collators slashed have been refunded.

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