THORChain has slashed validator stake only once in its history, an action taken exclusively in response to a security breach where an attacker stole $10 million from the protocol. The measure was not used for governance disputes or differences of opinion among network participants. The clarification addresses questions about whether validators risk losing their staked assets due to ideological disagreements within the decentralized exchange protocol. The single instance of stake slashing demonstrates that penalties are reserved strictly for malicious attacks rather than internal consensus debates.