Every apartment building has a fire escape plan pinned near the elevator. Detailed, color coded, covers every floor. Except one room the one with no windows, no second exit. That room isn't in the plan because there's nothing a plan can do for it. You just don't put yourself in there.

That's basically what I found staring at Babylon's finality provider recovery design. There's a whole recovery command for randomness proofs, a way to rebuild local status from chain data, monitoring for missed votes genuinely solid tooling.

Then I noticed what's missing: nothing for key loss. Not an oversight. It's structural. The recovery system only exists for the failure mode you can survive (jailing). The one you can't (slashing, key compromise) gets zero engineering attention just a warning label.

I kept expecting some kind of key rotation escape hatch. There isn't one, on purpose I think. It quietly pushes the entire irreversible risk category onto operator discipline, while the protocol only "insures" what was never actually dangerous.

Compare that to how Cosmos validators handle jailing versus tombstoning similar split, but I haven't seen anyone frame it as a deliberate scope boundary rather than a gap.

Is that the right place to draw the line?

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