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Minimal Issuance Reform: Linear Tapering

2026-06-23

A proposal for issuance reform: tapering staking yield linearly to zero at a 50% staking ratio with a per-epoch offset, leaving Ethereum’s existing rewards, penalties, and BASE_REWARD_FACTOR entirely untouched.

Minimal Issuance Reform: Linear Tapering with a Transition Period

2026-06-23

A variant of the linear-tapering issuance reform that phases the change in gradually: every offset is scaled by a coefficient that ramps from zero to one over a one-year transition, so net yield slides smoothly from today’s curve to the fully tapered curve rather than stepping down at the fork.

Minimal Issuance Reform: Floored Quadratic Offset Tapering

2026-06-22

Combining the two earlier variations: the quadratic offset taper gives a smooth pinch-off, and scaling it to 63/64 of its value leaves a small permanent issuance floor. Because the quadratic taper doubles the BASE_REWARD_FACTOR, a 1/64 floor matches the absolute size of the floored linear taper’s 1/32 floor — and because the quadratic taper arrives at saturation tangentially, the floored curve joins the floor with matching slope: a smooth descent rather than a kink.

Minimal Issuance Reform: Floored Offset Tapering

2026-06-21

A variation on the linear offset taper for those who want issuance never to reach zero: scaling the offset down to 31/32 of its value leaves a small permanent issuance floor — 1/32 of the untapered curve — with everything else in that proposal unchanged.

Minimal Issuance Reform: Linear Offset Tapering

2026-06-18

A proposal for issuance reform: tapering staking yield linearly to zero at a 50% staking ratio with a per-epoch offset, leaving Ethereum’s existing rewards and penalties entirely untouched.

Minimal Issuance Reform: Quadratic Offset Tapering

2026-06-18

A one-constraint variation on the linear offset taper: requiring the net yield to reach zero tangentially at a 50% staking ratio turns the linear offset into a quadratic one, for a smooth pinch-off instead of a kink. Everything else in that proposal is unchanged.