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Story: Kleros Founder Wants Ethereum Validators to Fund Shared Infrastructure via Redirect Rate

By Bruce Buterin

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How the Redirect Rate Would Work. The mechanics are pretty straightforward on paper. Validators opt in initially.

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The Funding Gap It's Trying to Close. Ethereum's infrastructure has long relied on a mix of foundation grants, protocol fees, and…

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Community Debate Still Unresolved. Discussions are ongoing, and they're not exactly converging.

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The founder of Kleros has put forward a proposal that could reshape how Ethereum's shared infrastructure gets paid for.

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That last part is what's stirring things up.

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The mechanics are pretty straightforward on paper. Validators opt in initially. They get to pick which organizations receive the redirected funds.

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The idea of validators choosing where funds go is probably the most interesting wrinkle here. It's not a top-down allocation decided by a foundation or a core dev team.

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Critics inside the Ethereum community have raised concerns about what happens when the rate goes mandatory.

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No official response from Ethereum's core development team has been made public. That silence adds a layer of uncertainty the proposal can't really shake right now.

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Ethereum's infrastructure has long relied on a mix of foundation grants, protocol fees, and goodwill from teams who build and maintain critical shared tooling.

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If it works, it's kind of a big deal — not just for Ethereum but for how blockchain networks think about sustaining themselves.

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Whether it actually passes is a different story.

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Validator consensus is hard to get. There are thousands of Ethereum validators, ranging from solo home stakers to large institutional operators, and their interests don't always…

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Discussions are ongoing, and they're not exactly converging. The debate keeps circling back to two things: governance and decentralization.

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