eip8363

What if Ethereum intentionally made staking less profitable?🤔

Sounds crazy?🐾
That's exactly what EIP-8363 proposes.

On August 4, a group of researchers (including Justin Drake from the Ethereum Foundation and Jérôme de Tychey) published the draft of EIP-8363 — Tapered Issuance Burn.
The idea is simple but aggressive:
The more $ETH is staked, the larger the share of validators’ consensus rewards the network will burn.
Once staking reaches ~60.25 million ETH (around 50% of the supply), the burn hits 100%. Net issuance for attestations and blocks becomes zero.
There’s an 18-month transition period to avoid an instant shock.
Why the authors support it
The current system never turns off the incentive to stake (even at 100% staking, yield stays around 1.5%)
Growing concentration among large custodians, exchanges, and LSTs
Solo stakers are gradually being squeezed out
Non-staking holders keep getting diluted
Why people are against it
Could hurt independent validators even more (they have higher costs)
Reduces predictable yield that institutions like
Negative impact on LSTs, carry strategies, and DeFi
Risk of the opposite effect even more centralization
Price reaction?
As of August 5, the market barely reacted. ETH is trading calmly around $1,860–1,875. The proposal is still very fresh and only has Draft status.
Long-term:
➖ Lower issuance = positive for monetary premium
➖ Lower staking yields = negative for institutional and DeFi demand
This is one of the most important economic EIPs since The Merge. The discussion will be interesting to follow.
What do you think: does Ethereum need this kind of “brake” on staking, or is it an unnecessary risk?

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Ethereum researchers, including Justin Drake from the Ethereum Foundation, have just proposed EIP-8363 to reduce validator rewards as the staking rate $ETH is approaching the 50% milestone.

However, this proposal is facing a lot of mixed reactions. Analysts warn that cutting profits could make solo stakers (independent stakers) more likely to be "out game" due to not optimizing costs, while also negatively affecting the overall yield landscape of the entire DeFi sector.

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Ethereum researchers, including Justin Drake from the Ethereum Foundation, have just proposed EIP-8363 to reduce validator rewards as the staking rate $ETH is approaching the 50% milestone.

However, this proposal is facing many mixed reactions. Analysts warn that lowering returns could cause solo stakers (independent stakers) to be “out of the game” due to non-optimized costs, while also negatively impacting the overall yield level of the entire DeFi sector.

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**🚨 JUST IN: Ethereum researchers propose ZERO validator rewards if 50% of all $ETH gets staked**

EIP-8363 (Tapered Issuance Burn) is on the table.

Six researchers (including Ethereum Foundation’s Justin Drake) want to gradually burn a rising share of newly created ETH rewards as more ETH is staked.

- Today: ~34% of supply is staked
- At ~50% (around 60.25 million ETH): net issuance hits **zero**

Goal: Stop the endless incentive to stake more and more ETH, protect decentralization, and make $ETH
scarcer long-term.

Critics are already warning:
This could squeeze solo stakers and push even more power toward big operators and exchanges.

Big change to Ethereum’s monetary policy. Still just a draft — far from confirmed.

What do you think, frens?
Good for ETH long-term… or a risk to decentralization?

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