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EIP-8363 Tapered Issuance Burn for Hegotá
EIP-8363 (Tapered Issuance Burn) proposes burning a fraction of consensus-layer validator rewards each epoch so that net staking yield reaches zero once 50% of ETH supply (~60.25M ETH) is staked, submitted two days before the August 6 ACDC call reviewing Hegotá hard fork candidates. With the staking ratio already above 1/3 as of April 2026 and ~1.75M ETH entering per month, projections place total staked ETH above 55% of supply by January 2028, well before roadmap milestones that would redefine the validator role. TIB leaves execution-layer income (MEV and priority fees) untouched, so as consensus rewards compress, MEV becomes a growing share of total income, a variance that large custodians and ETF issuers absorb through scale while solo stakers and independent operators exit first, deteriorating the Nakamoto coefficient. ETH staking yield serves as the base rate for lending markets, leveraged staking loops, LST collateral, and fixed-income protocols, so critics argue TIB makes yields unpredictable and uneconomical across the onchain economy before the validator role has been redesigned to justify the cut.
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