A Future to Protocol Upgradability
summary
Current practice relies on pausability, timelocks and emergency operational procedures and those tradeoffs create centralized intervention points like single sequencer execution, clustered validators and leader-based consensus attack surfaces. Proposal moves toward on-chain, consensus-driven control by letting delegators set slashing parameters and opt to auto-un-delegate nodes that violate risk profiles. EigenLayer’s slashing mechanism and a UI prototype showing enforced undelegation notifications are presented as a concrete, permissioned-to-permissionless governance path that preserves user choice while enforcing guard rails.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Protocol upgradeability intro
- 1:13Centralization trade-offs
- 3:47Permissionless vs decentralization
- 6:23Dynamic risk solutions
- 6:44Immutability vs upgradeability
- 8:09Governance upgrade risks
- 9:16Safety vs decentralization
- 9:59Use case parameters
- 12:32Q&A: Decentralization KPIs
- 15:06Q&A on proof of authority vs stake
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