Tuesday, 07 Jul, 2026

The Future of Protocol Sustainability: Ethereum’s New Debate Over Staking-Funded Public Goods

A provocative new proposal posted to the Ethereum Research forum has ignited a firestorm within the crypto community, forcing a long-overdue confrontation with one of the most sensitive questions in decentralized finance: How should the world’s leading smart-contract platform fund the essential infrastructure that keeps it running? The proposal, which suggests a mechanism allowing validators […]