# Validated, staking on eth2: #1 - Incentives

DevFeed: [Validated, staking on eth2: #1 - Incentives](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/validated-staking-on-eth2-1-incentives-16882.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2020/01/13/validated-staking-on-eth2-1-incentives>)

Author: Carl Beekhuizen

Published: 2020-01-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Protocol (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/protocol.md>)

Tags: [protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol.md>), [research-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research-development.md>)

## AI overview

This article examines eth2 incentives, including validator rewards, penalties, and slashings. It explains why validators are incentivized to remain online, the slashable behaviors of double voting and surround voting, and how penalties address malicious or accidental protocol violations.

## Source excerpt

Thanks to Joseph Schweitzer and Danny Ryan for review. Welcome back! Having discussed eth2's design philosophy last time, today's focus is on eth2's incentives through the lens of that philosophy. More specifically, we look at the incentives effecting eth2 and how they are realised in the form of rewards,...