Morning Edition · Thursday, June 25, 2026
Ethereum Debates Cutting Issuance, Reopening the Fight Over How to Fund Shared Security
A technical proposal outlines how the network could lower or zero staking rewards while adjusting penalties, weighing validator yield against collective investment.
A post on the Ethereum Research forum outlines the mechanics of low, zero, or negative issuance policies, as the network debates reducing the new ether it pays validators to secure the chain. The author is explicit that the post does not pr…
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Ethereum Confronts Public-Goods Funding
Ethereum increasingly turns to protocol-level mechanisms to fund shared upgrades and security, making the trade-off between staking yield and collective investment a recurring governance fight.
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