• Author(s): @PaulVMo
• Start Date: 2021-10-26
• Category: Technical
• Original HIP PR: HIP draft: Increase DKG Penalty #306
• Tracking Issue: this
• Status: In Discussion

Summary

Increase the DKG penalty amount from the current value of 1.0 to 5.0. The DKG penalty is assessed when a validator fails to complete the distributed key generation (DKG) that is required for a consensus group election to complete. A failed election is reattempted 5 blocks later with another set of validators. Repeated election failures are bad for the network and bad for the validator pool. The current DKG failure penalty amount is not significant enough to drive change in behavior for misconfigured and poor performing validators. By tuning the penalty amount in this way, failed validators should be more quickly removed from eligibility for consensus group and hopefully provide greater incentive for operators to improve the performance of their validators.

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