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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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‘Expensive lesson’: 75 Eth2 validators slashed for introducing potential chain split bug

A company providing nodes for Eth2 stakers was penalized for breaking safety protocols in the pursuit of higher performance.

Staking infrastructure provider Staked said it had learned “an expensive lesson” after 75 of its Eth2 validators were slashed on Feb. 4 from the staking pool as punishment for producing competing blocks. 

In a statement, Staked took the blame for the “technical issue” and said its customers would be “fully compensated”. The company will pay the penalty of 18 ETH, which is around $29,000 at current prices.

An unanticipated reaction to configuration changes caused several nodes managed by Staked to restart in error, leading them to incorrectly sign a second version of a previously-signed block. This introduced the potential for a split in the Ethereum blockchain.

According to Eth2 statistics maintained at Beaconcha.in, the snafu at Staked resulted in the largest single validator slashing event to occur since the Beacon Chain project went live on Dec. 1 2020. Validator slashings have otherwise been a rare occurrence so far.

Staked admitted it had made mistakes while pursuing “technical performance over double-signing robustness,” describing the outcome as “not a good trade-off.”

“We attempted to scale up the number of beacon nodes to get better performance […] The performance gains we achieved weren't worth the additional risk we inadvertently added.”

Staked added that no customer funds were harmed by the bug and they will reimburse affected customers with ETH held in the slashed validators, as well as their accumulated rewards.

The validators were slashed between blocks 456892 and 457585, with the official reason for slashing listed as “Attestation Violation.”

Anticipation for Eth2 is increasing as overbearing gas fees are preventing ordinary users from being able to transact on the Ethereum blockchain. However, the bug momentarily introduced by Staked serves as a reminder that significant testing is still required before Eth2 can advance to the next phase of release.

Despite the recent slashing, the number of validators on Beacon Chain — the initial phase of the Eth2 rollout — is currently at an all-time high of 91,701. This reflects a gain of 25,000 validators over the last two week.

With 32 ETH per validator, the overall value of Ether stored in the Eth2 Deposit Contract is now $4.7 billion.

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