Bison
Trails, a Blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service provider, has created
double-signing protection software, or DSP, which aims to address the
slashing penalties associated with double signing messages.


According
to the company, many digital asset holders consider slashing penalties
to be one of the “main risks” of Blockchain participation, as they make
it more difficult for the network to reach consensus.


Speaking
with Cointelegraph, Aaron Henshaw, CTO and co-founder of Bison Trails,
stated that such penalties could be dangerous for anyone participating
with their stake in a network as “it represents a place where token
holders and validators can actually lose existing funds, not just miss
out on future rewards.”


Henshaw claims that the software
is first being offered to users participating in the Kuzama and Tezos
networks. Polkadot, Cosmos, and Celo support will then follow.


The
NY-based firm said that if a cloud provider, region, or even a node has
an issue with double signing events, the software will be able to
respond to bring the infrastructure online and minimize downtime while
ensuring that such infrastructure won’t cause a double sign.


Bison Trails’ CTO explained:



“Bison
Trails can safely respond to outages and even have highly-available
nodes waiting without access to the keys they would need to sign.”



In
case of an outage in a primary node, the DSP could confirm the release
of a private key and allow a backup node to begin validating, said
Henshaw.


In July, Bison Trails announced
support for Ethereum 2.0 — an upgrade that will move the network from
its proof-of-work consensus mechanism to proof-of-stake. The network
will reward validators early, with a reward rate of 23% on ETH.