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Morning Edition · Sunday, June 21, 2026Published at 6:44 AM EDT · New York
Ethereum Researchers Confront the Cost of Improvements No One Wants to Pay For
A new Ethereum Research proposal frames the network's funding of shared upgrades as a coordination failure and offers validators a way to redirect revenue toward fixing it.
A proposal posted to Ethereum Research this week, titled Validator Redirected Revenue, names a problem that has troubled open networks since their founding. Everyone benefits from shared improvements, but no single actor wants to pay for th…
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