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By Evie Vavasseur
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Who's Pushing Back and Why. Greg Koumoutsos of Lido Labs is pretty direct about it.
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Timing Made Everything Worse. The proposal dropped just two days before the August 6 deadline for network upgrade considerations.
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The Monetary Policy Question. Supporters of EIP-8363 frame it as a long-term win for ETH's monetary profile.
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Ethereum's latest governance fight is ugly. A new proposal called EIP-8363, branded "Tapered Issuance Burn," wants to slash staking rewards progressively — and eventually cut new…
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Right now, about 41.5 million ETH is staked, which works out to roughly 34.07% of total supply.
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Not everyone buys that logic. Not even close.
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Greg Koumoutsos of Lido Labs is pretty direct about it. Lower issuance isn't automatically better for security, he says.
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Stani Kulechov, founder of Aave, one of the largest DeFi lending protocols on Ethereum, is also raising flags.
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Dr. Steve Berryman from Bitwise takes a different angle. He thinks market forces are already doing the job — naturally slowing staking participation without any policy…
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Leo Lanza, an Ethereum commentator, pushes back on the framing that current issuance works as a "stealth tax" on non-stakers.
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More context: Hyperliquid ETF Inflows Stall as Regulated Rivals Eye the $2–3 Billion DeFi Trading Pool
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Ethereum's development process has always relied on rough consensus — a messy, sometimes slow, but generally inclusive way of making decisions.
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Supporters of EIP-8363 frame it as a long-term win for ETH's monetary profile. Fewer tokens issued means less dilution, stronger scarcity, better fundamentals for holders who…
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Read also: Brazils B3 Tokenizes Cattle for a $19,600 Loan as Blockchain Reaches the Farm
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But critics say the risk is predictability. Institutional investors who've built positions in ETH or staking infrastructure want to know the rules aren't going to change every…
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