ChainCatcher report: Joseph Chalom, CEO of SharpLink, the Ethereum treasury company, has published a post opposing EIP-8363. According to his disclosure, the network currently distributes newly issued ETH as staking rewards to validators at a variable yield of approximately 2.75%. If this proposal is adopted, it will be phased in over about eighteen months, gradually burning a portion of the issuance rewards as staking volume increases. When approximately 50% of ETH is staked, staking yields will drop to 0%, leaving validators to rely solely on transaction tips, which currently account for only 15% of total staking rewards. Chalom outlines four key objections: 1. Staking yields serve as the de facto benchmark for all on-chain interest rates. With approximately $35 billion in TVL, liquid staking tokens are core collateral in on-chain lending; eliminating yields will increase the cost of on-chain capital and drive actual returns toward or below zero, prompting collateral to migrate to assets that still offer yields. Independent stakers and smaller operators will be the first to be squeezed out. 2. The native yield characteristic is precisely why institutions choose ETH over Bitcoin. Erasing this distinction amounts to voluntarily relinquishing ETH’s competitive advantage at the very moment it is outperforming Bitcoin. 3. Issuance is not an external cost but an internal transfer to network security providers and builders; burning it destroys this value rather than reallocating it. 4. The current timing is worst possible: Ethereum is in the midst of an upward wave of institutional adoption, and eliminating incentives will dampen this momentum. Chalom states that SharpLink agrees with the proposal’s authors that ETH should become scarcer and staking rates should stabilize at a reasonable level—but believes this goal should be achieved through the existing base fee burning mechanism, not by altering the economic foundation of the protocol.
SharpLink Opposes Ethereum EIP-8363, Warns That Yield Zeroing Could Undermine ETH's Institutional Appeal
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SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom has criticized recent Ethereum news regarding EIP-8363, which aims to phase out staking rewards as ETH staking reaches 50%. He warns that eliminating yield could increase capital costs and hinder institutional adoption. Chalom argues that Ethereum’s base fee burn already ensures scarcity and stable staking rates without requiring protocol changes.
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