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| title | Staking Penalties |
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New stakers often worry about penalties and slashing. To help clarify the differences, we created the following visualization along with supporting resources.
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The most common penalty stakers face comes from being offline, known as an inactivity leak. Even after a month offline, the penalty remains relatively minor. Larger penalties require conditions that lead to slashed and force-exited validators. Full stake slashing is extremely rare and requires coordinated actions across many validators to trigger.
| Scenario | Penalty | More Info |
|---|---|---|
| Offline one day** | 0.002 ETH + missed earnings | docs.ethstaker.org |
| Offline one week** | 0.0142 ETH + missed earnings | docs.ethstaker.org |
| Offline one month** | 0.06 ETH + missed earnings | docs.ethstaker.org |
| Surround vote, double voting, proposing two blocks* | 0.0078* ETH + forced exit | ethereum.org |
| Attack by multiple validators* | Full 32* ETH stake | ethereum.org |
* Penalties based on a 32 ETH validator and scales linearly with active balance, so with a 2048 ETH validator the penalty is 64x the value shown
** Scales linearly with time offline