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EIP-8363 Tapered Issuance Burn

DraftCorecreated 2026-07-14

Burn a fraction of validator rewards that rises with the staking ratio, removing the issuance incentive to stake more than 50% of all ETH

Authors: pintail (@pintail-xyz), Jérôme de Tychey (@jdetychey), dapplion (@dapplion), pa7x1 (@pa7x1), Ladislaus von Daniels (@ladidan), Justin Drake (@justindrake)

What the specification covers

AbstractMotivationSecurity, neutrality, and resistance to captureETH as moneyRestoring an equilibriumSpecificationConstantsHelper functionsThe base reward factor transitionBeacon chain state transitionRationaleWhy a burnWhy a 50% saturation ratioWhy the burn uses idealised rewardsWhy the burn is split by dutyDeriving the burn fractionThe effect on large operatorsThe transition periodIssuance and MEVBackwards CompatibilityTest CasesReference ImplementationSecurity ConsiderationsCopyright

This proposal declares no Solidity interface, so there is nothing to compute. It may be a core protocol change, a meta proposal, or written in prose only.

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