Ethereum researchers have proposed a major change to the networks staking economics that would gradually burn newly issued validator rewards as more ETH is staked, a move aimed at reducing inflation and strengthening Ethereums long-term scarcity. The proposal, signed by six researchers including Ethereum Foundations Justin Drake, would progressively increase the percentage of newly created ETH that is burned every epoch. Once staking reaches about 60.25 million ETHroughly 50% of the total supply100% of new consensus-layer issuance would be burned, effectively reducing net issuance to zero…. Read more





