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Explain the Concept of ‘Economic Finality’ in Blockchain Consensus.

Economic finality is the point at which reversing a transaction would be so financially costly to the network participants (e.g. validators being slashed or losing massive staked collateral) that it is practically impossible. It is a security guarantee based on economic incentives rather than purely cryptographic or algorithmic certainty.

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