A group of Ethereum researchers has submitted EIP-8361, a draft proposal that would gradually reduce validator rewards as the amount of staked ETH increases.
— Jerome de Tychey 🦇🔊 (@jdetychey) August 4, 2026
The proposal, called Tapered Issuance Burn, was submitted by researchers including Jérôme de Tychey, Justin Drake, dapplion, pintail, pa7x1 and Ladislaus von Daniels. It remains a draft Core EIP awaiting review and editor consensus.
Under the proposal, Ethereum would deduct and burn a portion of the rewards assigned to validators for attestations, block proposals and sync committee participation.
The burn rate would increase alongside Ethereum’s staking ratio and reach 100% when the network has approximately 60.25 million ETH actively staked, an amount set to represent roughly half of the current supply. Net staking yield would therefore decline as more ETH enters the validator set.
