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What Are the Potential Centralization Risks Associated with Using Developer-Set Checkpoints?

Checkpoints centralize authority with developers, creating a single point of failure and undermining trustless consensus by dictating valid chain history.
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What Are the Potential Centralization Risks Associated with Using Developer-Set Checkpoints?

Developer-set checkpoints introduce a centralization risk because they grant the core developers the authority to dictate which chain history is considered valid. If a malicious developer sets a checkpoint to an illegitimate block, the network is forced to accept it, overriding the decentralized consensus.

This reliance on a trusted third party (the developers) undermines the core tenet of a decentralized, trustless system, creating a single point of failure and potential for censorship or manipulation.

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