Never slashable
- Yield Enjoyer positions. A hard guard in the program rejects any attempt to slash a Yield position — even by the platform. Pure-yield stake is fully protected.
- Positions that are unstaking. Once you’ve started your cooldown, the position can no longer be slashed.
- Honest downtime. Going offline or undergoing maintenance is not a violation and never triggers a penalty.
Always protected
- Your principal can only return to you. No instruction lets the platform move staked principal to itself — see Non-Custodial Design.
- Your exit is never blocked. Unstaking, withdrawing, and claiming work even during an emergency pause.
- In-progress cooldowns are fixed. A parameter change can’t retroactively lengthen an unstake you’ve already started.
- Accrued rewards are yours. Unstaking snapshots what you’ve earned; you keep it and can still claim it.
Summary
| Situation | Can it be slashed? |
|---|---|
| Yield position | Never |
| Compute / Validator, honest | No (only tampering is penalized) |
| Compute / Validator, offline | No |
| Any position already unstaking | No |
| Compute / Validator, proven tampering | Yes — see Slashing |
The design principle: honest participants never lose principal. Slashing exists only to penalize provable tampering by bonded operators and validators.