Staircase Attack-II in Ethereum PoS

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Good paper!

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A single kamikaze validator can make chaos in the entire system

Kamikaze Attacks on ETH2

There is one type of an attack on ETH PoS, where attacker is willing to sacrifice 32 ETH slashed to potentially have a much larger gain. If an attacker shorts a significant amount of ETH, then the potential gain from even temporarily disruption of the network can outweigh the 32 ETH loss. I do not know if the current ETH clients have been tested against attacks like that. The simplest attack involves the malicious proposer creating a large number of non-unique but valid block proposals, and d…

Unfortunately Ethereum Foundation has never announced any bounty on security vulnerabilities