Downtime Penalties and Recovery

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The concept Downtime — your validator being offline and missing attestations — is handled completely differently from slashing. It's a small, automatic "inactivity" penalty proportional to the time you're offline, and critically, it's self-healing: once you're back online and attesting correctly, the penalty mechanism stops and your effective balance recovers through normal rewards. There's no force-exit, no permanent mark, and……

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