Ethereum EIP-8390 pitches big issuance cuts but leaves critical gaps unresolved
The proposal would remove roughly 33,800 ETH from annual issuance by shifting to offchain ZK finality proofs · a meaningful supply reduction on paper. The catch: it would immediately break every Altair light client in production, and the spec ships without a replacement API, prover incentive structure, or reproducible performance benchmarks.
🟡 Mixed · supply reduction is structurally positive but the technical debt and missing spec details introduce real systemic risk
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