Marinade Waives Validator Bond Penalties for Agave Client Slot Skips

Marinade is effectively socializing the cost of a client-side defect rather than charging it to operators, a notable shift in how staking protocols allocate software risk. The decision matters most for validators running Agave 4.3.2, whose economics would otherwise absorb penalties for a bug they did not author, and it signals that PSR and SAM are being treated as adjustable instruments rather than fixed rules. The open question is how long the waiver persists and whether comparable treatment becomes a precedent when future client issues surface before patches ship.