> ## Documentation Index
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# Economic Finality

> Finality backed by the economic cost of violating consensus, such as stake that would be slashed.

# Economic Finality

Finality backed by the economic cost of violating consensus, such as stake that would be slashed.

## Definition

Finality backed by the economic cost of violating consensus, such as stake that would be slashed.

## Why it matters

Consensus concepts explain how independent nodes agree on one shared history without a central coordinator.

## Related knowledge

* [Block Producer](/generated/v2/glossary/block-producer) — term
* [Finality](/generated/v2/glossary/finality) — term
* [Proof of Stake](/generated/v2/books/proof-of-stake) — term
* [Validator](/generated/v2/glossary/validator) — term

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**Canonical knowledge ID:** `glossary:economic-finality`