Ethereum wants to slash staking yields toward zero. Gitcoin's Kevin Owocki, DV Labs' Oisín Kyne, and Ethereum-France's Jérôme de Tychey debate whether that breaks DeFi.
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Ethereum's core developers are considering a decision that could cut ETH's staking yield toward zero, and DeFi's biggest names are furious about it.
Jérôme de Tychey, President of Ethereum-France and a co-author of EIP-8363, joins Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin, and Oisín Kyne, CEO of DV Labs, to argue through the proposal's tradeoffs. Aave's Stani Kulechov, Ether.fi's Mike Silagadze, and Joseph Chalom have all pushed back, warning the change guts DeFi's biggest source of yield.
They cover the Nakamoto coefficient and why a 51% staking cartel could censor blocks for free, why solo stakers could see after-tax income collapse, and why Oisín is skeptical of an enshrined liquid staking token. Jérôme defends why Ethereum can pay stakers less and still be more secure than rivals boasting 7% yields. All Core Devs meets Thursday, August 20, and the real deadline lands October 26, when the network decides if EIP-8363 is mature enough to move forward.
Host:
Laura Shin, Host / Unchained
Guests:
Kevin Owocki - Founder of Gitcoin
Oisín Kyne - CEO and Co-founder of DV Labs
Jérôme de Tychey - President of Ethereum-France
Timestamps
🏛️ 01:38 Jérôme lays out EIP-8363's validator reward burn curve
🔥 08:02 Oisín on why a 51% cartel could censor blocks for free
⚖️ 10:39 Jérôme's rebuttal: finality security versus censorship risk
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💼 16:13 Kevin on Aave, Bankless, and DeFi's backlash to the burn
🧾 33:18 Why solo stakers could see after-tax income near zero
🏦 45:39 Does killing ETH's yield scare off institutional buyers?
⚛️ 51:03 Ultrasound money versus productive asset: ETH's identity fight
🔐 56:41 Why Oisín is skeptical of an enshrined liquid staking token
🥇 59:34 Can ETH's shrinking yield compete with Solana and stablecoins?
🔮 01:05:27 Post-quantum costs, and when All Core Devs decides EIP-8363's fate
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