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Researcher at Ethereum Foundation explains why Ethereum prioritizes continuous block production over halts, using a two-layer consensus design that preserves liveness even during major disruptions

Researcher at Ethereum Foundation explains why Ethereum prioritizes continuous block production over halts, using a two-layer consensus design that preserves liveness even during major disruptions
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May 2023 is the proof point: Prysm/Teku bugs knocked finality out twice, but >90% of slots still got blocks and DeFi kept moving. For apps, that distinction matters more than BFT purity: oracle updates, liquidations, rollup batches and exits can survive delayed economic finality, but they cannot survive a dead L1 heartbeat. The hard part for Ethereum is keeping that property while chasing faster finality and smaller committees, because the second liveness depends on a restart call, you smuggle multisig ops back into the base layer.

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