In order to limit the continued growth of staking in the Ethereum ecosystem, adjustments to the issuance curve are currently being proposed that would lead to a reduction in staking yields. However, the potential impact of such a change on the various actors in the ecosystem has not yet been sufficiently researched. In particular, a reduction in yields could undermine the degree of decentralisation of validators. To this end, the research team at Swiss Economics is conducting a study on the potential impact of changes to the issuance curve on the various actors in the Ethereum ecosystem, in particular the solo stakers.

The project is funded by cyber.Fund's MVI Grant Program. A more detailed description can be found here.

METHODS

• Theoretical Modeling
• Econometric Analysis
• Agent-based Modeling