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Fraud proof

Evidence used to demonstrate that a claimed computation or state transition is incorrect.

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In an optimistic system, a fraud proof gives the dispute mechanism a way to reject an invalid result. It might narrow the disagreement to a particular execution step. Challengers need the relevant data and a working route to submit their challenge; a theoretical proof mechanism alone is not the complete process.

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The dispute narrows to one execution step, and the challenger demonstrates how that step produced the wrong state.

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Also called
Fault proof
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