How Does PoS Achieve ‘Economic Finality’?

PoS achieves 'economic finality' by ensuring that any attempt to reverse a transaction would require an attacker to incur a greater economic loss than the potential gain. This is done through the threat of slashing.

Once a block is attested to by a supermajority of stakers, the cost to reverse it (losing their staked assets) is prohibitively high, making the transaction practically irreversible from an economic standpoint.

How Does the Transition of Ethereum to a Full PoS System Impact Its Finality?
How Does the ‘Economic Finality’ of PoS Compare to the ‘Probabilistic Finality’ of PoW?
What Is the Role of a “Supermajority” in PoS Finality?
How Does the Finality Guarantee in PoS Compare to the Probabilistic Finality in PoW?
How Do “Finality Gadgets” in PoS Systems Serve a Similar Function to Checkpoints?
What Financial Incentive Motivates Stakers to Participate in the Block Signing Process of PoA?
What Is a ‘Byzantine Fault Tolerance’ (BFT) Consensus and How Does It Relate to PoS Finality?
How Does the ‘Supermajority’ Concept Work in PoS Finality?

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