I kept coming back to the staking scripts because one detail refused to sit right with me.
If the finality provider is important enough to appear in the slashing path, why doesn't it appear in the unbonding path too?
I don't remember deciding that both paths should look almost the same. It was just the picture I'd built in my head.
Then I started reading them side by side. The symmetry never showed up.
A staker can unbond without the finality provider's key. Slashing can't.
I went back through the scripts a second time because it felt like I'd skipped the reason for that difference.
I hadn't.
The finality provider never gets to decide whether my Bitcoin can leave during a normal exit. That authority only appears after the protocol already has cryptographic evidence that the staking rules were broken.
That was the part I hadn't been seeing.
I'd been treating security as something that naturally comes with more control. These scripts kept refusing that idea.
The finality provider protects the staking rules without ever becoming the custodian of the Bitcoin.
I'd been treating security and control as the same thing. @BabylonLabs_io quietly separates them.
@BabylonLabs_io
#baby $BABY
If the finality provider is important enough to appear in the slashing path, why doesn't it appear in the unbonding path too?
I don't remember deciding that both paths should look almost the same. It was just the picture I'd built in my head.
Then I started reading them side by side. The symmetry never showed up.
A staker can unbond without the finality provider's key. Slashing can't.
I went back through the scripts a second time because it felt like I'd skipped the reason for that difference.
I hadn't.
The finality provider never gets to decide whether my Bitcoin can leave during a normal exit. That authority only appears after the protocol already has cryptographic evidence that the staking rules were broken.
That was the part I hadn't been seeing.
I'd been treating security as something that naturally comes with more control. These scripts kept refusing that idea.
The finality provider protects the staking rules without ever becoming the custodian of the Bitcoin.
I'd been treating security and control as the same thing. @BabylonLabs_io quietly separates them.
@BabylonLabs_io
#baby $BABY