Cost Of Corruption

The threat to security being mitigated against is threat posed by malicious validators (in other words, Blockchain hackers).

The rationale behind this is that, the more the value of assets staked by validator's the less they will feel inclined to become malicious or attempt malicious activities because once a validator becomes malicious, and say, he validates an incorrect or invalid transaction, his staked assets will be slashed. By slashed , I mean it will be ceased from him or her. And he or she can never ever get it back.