diff --git a/simulations/Cargo.toml b/simulations/Cargo.toml
index f04c87df..1b941633 100644
--- a/simulations/Cargo.toml
+++ b/simulations/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ edition = "2021"
 
 [dependencies]
 clap = { version = "4", features = ["derive"] }
+crc32fast = "1.3"
 fixed-slice-deque = "0.1.0-beta2"
 nomos-core = { path = "../nomos-core" }
 polars = { version = "0.27", features = ["serde", "object", "json", "csv-file", "parquet", "dtype-struct"] }
diff --git a/simulations/src/warding/mod.rs b/simulations/src/warding/mod.rs
index f0abe64b..d84b53aa 100644
--- a/simulations/src/warding/mod.rs
+++ b/simulations/src/warding/mod.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ use serde::Deserialize;
 use crate::node::Node;
 
 mod minmax;
+mod stalled;
 mod ttf;
 
 pub struct SimulationState<N> {
diff --git a/simulations/src/warding/stalled.rs b/simulations/src/warding/stalled.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..19c2d6fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/simulations/src/warding/stalled.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+use crate::node::Node;
+use crate::warding::{SimulationState, SimulationWard};
+use serde::Deserialize;
+
+/// StalledView. Track stalled nodes (e.g incoming queue is empty, the node doesn't write to other queues)
+#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, Clone)]
+pub struct StalledViewWard {
+    // the hash checksum
+    consecutive_viewed_checkpoint: Option<u32>,
+    // use to check if the node is stalled
+    criterion: usize,
+    threshold: usize,
+}
+
+impl StalledViewWard {
+    fn update_state(&mut self, cks: u32) {
+        match &mut self.consecutive_viewed_checkpoint {
+            Some(cp) => {
+                if cks == *cp {
+                    self.criterion += 1;
+                } else {
+                    *cp = cks;
+                    // reset the criterion
+                    self.criterion = 0;
+                }
+            }
+            None => {
+                self.consecutive_viewed_checkpoint = Some(cks);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<N: Node> SimulationWard<N> for StalledViewWard {
+    type SimulationState = SimulationState<N>;
+    fn analyze(&mut self, state: &Self::SimulationState) -> bool {
+        let nodes = state
+            .nodes
+            .read()
+            .expect("simulations: StalledViewWard panic when requiring a read lock");
+        self.update_state(checksum(nodes.as_slice()));
+        self.criterion >= self.threshold
+    }
+}
+
+#[inline]
+fn checksum<N: Node>(nodes: &[N]) -> u32 {
+    let mut hash = crc32fast::Hasher::new();
+    for node in nodes.iter() {
+        hash.update(&node.current_view().to_be_bytes());
+        // TODO: hash messages in the node
+    }
+
+    hash.finalize()
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod test {
+    use super::*;
+    use std::sync::{Arc, RwLock};
+
+    #[test]
+    fn rebase_threshold() {
+        let mut stalled = StalledViewWard {
+            consecutive_viewed_checkpoint: None,
+            criterion: 0,
+            threshold: 2,
+        };
+        let state = SimulationState {
+            nodes: Arc::new(RwLock::new(vec![10])),
+        };
+
+        // increase the criterion, 1
+        assert!(!stalled.analyze(&state));
+        // increase the criterion, 2
+        assert!(!stalled.analyze(&state));
+        // increase the criterion, 3 > threshold 2, so true
+        assert!(stalled.analyze(&state));
+
+        // push a new one, so the criterion is reset to 0
+        state.nodes.write().unwrap().push(20);
+        assert!(!stalled.analyze(&state));
+
+        // increase the criterion, 2
+        assert!(!stalled.analyze(&state));
+        // increase the criterion, 3 > threshold 2, so true
+        assert!(stalled.analyze(&state));
+    }
+}