On Demand Security

With the large user operator network and individual solo staking and operating. OpenLayer enables an elastic computation service network that provides exactly the amount of security a computation request would need.

For example a data requester dealing with a low security stake transaction would not really need 500M dollars security behind the correctness of the data reported by an Oracle. In fact, if the transaction would lead to at most 10ETH loss if the data went wrong, then we only need to provide 15ETH (with 5ETH buffer) worth of security behind it. So when they do go wrong the staked assets can back the loss up.

The economic security works better in this case compared to the normal operation model where the entire network’s security is always recruited for a task.

For example, for a task that worth X and thus needs X worth of security, in the normal approach, the entire network’s security Y (Y >> X) has been recruited to perform this task. The task distributor pays out Z as the premium of handling the task, thus the return for handling the task comes to Z/Y. With OpenLayer's approach, the return of handling the task becomes Z/X >> Z/Y.