What is a Tier
A tier defines the security level, cost, and robustness of a dispute in Slice.
Tiers allow the protocol to adapt to different types of conflicts by balancing:
resolution speed,
required level of trust,
and the economic risk assumed by both parties and jurors.
Each dispute is executed within a specific tier, and all rules of the resolution process are determined by that tier.
What Changes Between Tiers
1. Number of Jurors
Each tier defines how many human jurors participate in resolving a dispute.
Lower tiers use fewer jurors, enabling faster and lower-cost resolutions.
Higher tiers use more jurors, increasing diversity of judgment and reducing the likelihood of biased outcomes.
A higher number of jurors increases the robustness of the result against individual errors or adversarial behavior.
2. Stakes
Tiers establish the required stake amounts for both:
the parties involved in the dispute (claimer and defender),
and the jurors participating in the vote.
Higher stakes:
increase the cost of malicious behavior,
raise the economic commitment of participants,
and better align incentives when the value or complexity of the dispute is higher.
The stake does not grant additional voting power. Each juror always has exactly one vote, regardless of the amount staked.
3. Security Level
The security level of a dispute increases as the tier becomes higher.
This is driven by the combination of:
a larger number of jurors,
higher economic stakes,
and a greater total cost required to manipulate the outcome.
Together, these factors make higher tiers more suitable for:
higher-value disputes,
more complex cases,
or situations where an additional level of confidence is required.
Tier System Design
Tiers do not exist to segment users, but to offer security options proportional to the risk of a given conflict.
In the current implementation:
tiers are fixed and predefined by the protocol,
all disputes within the same tier follow exactly the same rules,
and outcomes are executed automatically and verifiably on-chain.
This design ensures predictable behavior for both individual users and platforms integrating Slice.
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