> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.x402layer.cc/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What's Never Slashed > The protections the program guarantees — the cases where your stake can never be touched. Slashing is bounded by guarantees enforced in the program itself. These are the situations where your stake **cannot** be reduced. ## 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](/staking/concepts/cooldowns), 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](/staking/safety/non-custodial). * **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](/staking/safety/slashing) | The design principle: honest participants never lose principal. Slashing exists only to penalize provable tampering by bonded operators and validators.