Aave founder Stani Kulechov criticized EIP-8363 in August 2026 as harmful to Ethereum, but later supported its withdrawal on October 1, 2026, calling the withdrawal a great move

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The postponement of the Glamsterdam upgrade was agreed upon during the October 22, 2026, All Core Developers Execution meeting #248.

If approved by the ENS DAO, the ENSv2 activation proposal must undergo a mandatory waiting period of at least two days under a timelock before implementation

Ethereum Name Service founder Nick Johnson submitted a draft proposal on October 11, 2026, asking the ENS DAO to approve the activation of ENSv2, an upgraded naming protocol, on the Ethereum mainnet

Upon full activation of ENSv2, ENS Labs plans to transfer its remaining administrative control and privileged roles over the upgraded contracts to the ENS DAO.

ENS DAO executable proposals require at least 1% participation, equivalent to 1 million ENS votes, and a simple majority vote over a seven-day period to pass.

The ENS DAO should approve the ENSv2 activation proposal

Corporate treasury accumulation permanently removes Ethereum supply from active trading

Proposal EIP-8363, which aimed to adjust Ethereum's staking yield, was removed from an upcoming upgrade

The net new issuance of Ethereum (ETH) is approximately 1.1 million per year

The Ethereum Economic Zone framework utilizes Zisk's zero-knowledge proving technology, uses Ether as its default gas token, and does not introduce a new native token.

The GnosisDAO governance proposal GIP-153 was approved in August 2026 with 123,158 GNO in support, 115 against, and 151 abstaining.

Ethereum should replace trusted block-building middlemen in Glamsterdam

The co-authors of EIP-8363 committed to a separate, dedicated process to address Ethereum's issuance policy, with liquid staking protocol Lido offering to help steer this issuance-policy process

Ethereum developers and contributors raised concerns regarding EIP-8363's potential effects on network security, validator diversity, solo staking, the staking industry, and the design of EIP-8363's burn curve

Core protocol contributors, client contributors, and industry participants argued during Ethereum's Hegota Consideration for Inclusion process that a fork scoping exercise was not the right venue to settle an issuance policy change

Jérôme de Tychey outlined a multi-node timeline for the issuance process starting with a forum at Devcon in November 2026, followed by workshops, and ending with a forum at EthCC in April 2027.

EIP-8363, titled 'Tapered Issuance Burn', was proposed on August 4, 2026, by researchers including Justin Drake, Pintail, Jérôme de Tychey, dapplion, pa7x1, and Ladislaus von Daniels.

The co-authors of Ethereum Improvement Proposal 8363 withdrew the proposal from consideration for the network's upcoming Hegota upgrade on October 1, 2026.

SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom formally opposed EIP-8363 in August 2026, stating that the proposal would undermine and weaken decentralized finance.

Under EIP-8363, the share of validator rewards burned would rise with the total level of staked Ethereum, reaching 100% at approximately 60.25 million ETH, with an 18-month phase-in period.