Reporting it here for your convenience: > If the problem stays, you can attack the network simply deploying multiple idling contracts. The security assumption would not be 2/3rd of honest node anymore, but 2/3rd of honest node+economic state viability. For the costs of deploying 10,000 contracts (around €50,000 in gas costs at today's value) you could slow down the VM for half a second. Slow it down for 5 seconds and the amount of time taken to accept a block will degrade the consensus. Slow it down for 10s and you get the whole network to a halt Please note that while the index is the most impacted by contracts, it is in no way exclusive to them. Deploying contracts flushed out the problem with the index (tracked here: https://github.com/dusk-network/piecrust/issues/396) but it is in no way affecting solely the contracts but the overall global state. In a way it was a blessing to include contracs on Mainnet since upgrading the VM after the launch would be possible, but certainly dangerous and quite painful. It is much better to address the problem now.

https://x.com/PolySwarm/status/1844816614094422522