Ethereum should not focus on gaming staking issuance and cutting staking rewards. That is not the problem Ethereum needs to solve.
Ethereum is still an unfinished product when it comes to serving the financial system. At the protocol level, the priorities are privacy, scalability, and security. We need real breakthroughs and the leadership to deliver them.
At the application layer, the focus should be on scaling the use cases Ethereum was built for: stablecoins, DeFi, and RWAs that bring the financial system onchain.
We have achieved a lot over the past decade, but the last mile matters most.
No. I stand firmly opposed to this EIP.
The main argument for it is that issuance acts as a stealth tax on ETH holders who don't stake. ETH's annual supply inflation is around 0.85%. Gold, the most proven monetary asset in history, inflates 1 to 2% per year. If that never stopped gold from becoming a premier store of value, 0.85% is not a meaningful threat to ETH.
Meanwhile the risk side of this trade is enormous.
Staking pulls ETH out of liquid circulation, like pumping oil back into the ground. The asset still exists, but less of it is immediately available for sale. That scarcity is a feature. This proposal treats it as a bug and pushes staked ETH back toward the liquid supply. To eliminate a theoretical 0.85% tax, we would risk a far larger decline in purchasing power as unlocked ETH becomes available to sell.
Small, known dilution on one side. A large, unpredictable supply shock on the other. That is an insane risk to take.
The free market already solves this. Holders who want yield can stake, lend, or provide liquidity. We don't need to redesign ETH's monetary structure to guarantee every holder the same return.
Let the market adjust.
ETHEREUM RESEARCHERS PROPOSE CUTTING NEW STAKING REWARDS TO ZERO AT 50% STAKED
Ethereum Improvement Proposal EIP-8363 would gradually reduce newly issued ETH rewards as more of the supply is staked.
Today, around 34% of ETH is staked. Under the proposal, new issuance would fall to zero if staking reached 50%.
Validators would still earn priority fees and MEV, but newly minted ETH rewards would end.
Critics argue lower issuance could make solo staking less viable, while larger operators benefit from greater economies of scale.
Supporters counter that Ethereum already has more than enough economic security and reducing issuance would strengthen ETH’s monetary policy.
The proposal is expected to be one of the most heavily debated Ethereum EIPs this year.
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Unfortunately this proposal doesn't achieve the outcome it tries to achieve and is actually hurtful for Ethereum.
It caps Ethereum staking rewards to 0% when over 50% of supply staked.
What this mean is that Ethereum staking yield becomes unpredictable and even fully uneconomical activity for many, which is a negative factor for any institutional buyer who would considering taking ETH position (instead of other networks with predictable cash flows). This uncertainty has a significant adoption cost.
This also means unpredictable yield for solo stakers who might be even more sensitive on pricing.
For DeFi, with moving to 0% reward, this essentially makes ETH borrowing strategies mostly unviable and killing ETH borrowing and yield use-cases for ETH (only reason to borrow ETH ironically would be to short it). The only way to get ETH yield would be to stake, lock into a time period (instead of instant withdrawals in DeFi) and also have hopium ETH doesn't reach 50% staked of supply.
My concern is also that those who are fine with ETH beta and yield might also sell ETH for other yielding assets such as stables for yield, very common move when rates go down in TradFi, funds flowing from stables to equities but here we will have the other way around. Could be good for DeFi but not for ETH in DeFi.
From my personal take, this just makes ETH less viable as an asset and restricts its potential. I hope this proposal doesn't move fwd, otherwise we see lot of people moving their interest in other networks. There are many who share the same view.
Ethereum should not be punished for its growth.
FOUR TOUCHES ON THIS ETHEREUM LINE SINCE 2021. EVERY ONE WAS AN ENTRY.
2022 twice, 2025, and now.
The fourth touch was $1,505. Price is $1,870, already 23% off it.
Nobody was buying down there. They never are.
The top of the channel is $4,900. That's the range, not a prediction.
Lose $1,505 on a weekly close and the channel breaks for the first time in five years.
That's a wide stop size accordingly.
Today, BlackRock launched @ethereum share classes for its European money market funds in partnership with J.P. Morgan and its tokenization platform.
This announcement follows J.P. Morgan's May launch of JLTXX on Ethereum, which has already grown to nearly $800M in assets on-chain.
BlackRock. JP Morgan. Ethereum.
When competitors converge on the same infrastructure, it's no longer a trend. It's the future of finance.
$ETH BOTTOM IS IN.
MULTI-YEAR SUPPORT HAS HELD AGAIN.
AFTER YEARS OF CONSOLIDATION, ETHEREUM IS SITTING AT THE PERFECT REVERSAL ZONE.
THE NEXT MAJOR LEG STARTS HERE.
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