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| title | Staking Research |
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| subheader | A collection of active areas of research related to staking |
Adjusting the issuance curve has been a topic of discussion primarily aimed at addressing increasing validator set centralization. A comprehensive resource maintained by Caspar can be found at issuance.wtf.
- Properties of issuance level: consensus incentives and variability across potential reward curves
- Endgame Staking Economics: A Case for Targeting
- Electra: Issuance Curve Adjustment Proposal
Inclusion lists are a set of proposals aimed at increasing censorship resistance of the network in light of increased censorship caused by external builder centralization.
mevburn aims to address centralization caused by the volatility in MEV rewards and increase the cost of censorship at the builder level.
Enshrined Proposal Builder Separation removes the necessity for relays by allowing validators and builders to interact trustlessly.
There are a number of proposals in flux to adjust the structure of block building on Ethereum. Some of these separate the parties who attest and propose (as proposing and building is mostly separate today). Some break up who has the rights to build pieces of a block. Some change how proposers are chosen. All of these proposals seek to address increasingly unsustainable centralization that has emerged from the current structure. This area of research is the most active and broad on this list.