The Ethereum issuance debate, in one place.

01TL;DR

What the debate is about

What is actually contested

    Where the centers of gravity are

    02The stance spectrum

    Every named contributor placed on a single axis from "preserve the curve" to "change now, aggressively". Tap a name to jump to their card. Position is Claude's reading; quotes on each card are verbatim.

    03Curve proposals

    Proposals here are direct changes to (or defenses of) Ethereum's reward curve i(s). For non-curve EIPs that participants raised as instead-of the curve change — anti-correlation penalty, native DVT, native LST, Rainbow Staking, MEV burn, validator-set caps — see Alternatives.

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    04Alternatives instead of a curve change

    Other levers proposed in the chat to address the underlying concerns (centralisation, LST dominance, validator-set quality) without changing the issuance curve. Some are positioned as preconditions; some as outright replacements. Click a card to expand.

    05Voices

    The contributors whose positions shape the debate. Each card carries a colour-coded stance tag matching the spectrum above; the supports/opposes language is reflected in the For/Against splits inside each proposal.

    06Timeline

    Two quiet quarters, then April 21 — ~230 messages in a single day around pintail's article and Anders Elowsson's "we have started working on an EIP" confirmation. The volume bar shows the explosion at a glance.

    Daily message volume peak: Apr 21 · 230 messages

    07Survey voice

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    08Sources library

    Every external link shared in the chat. X posts cannot be auto-fetched and are linked for follow-up. Three other sources (Grayscale, SSRN, beaconcha.in) returned 403 to our scraper — open them in a browser.

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    09Visual exhibits

    23 charts, slides and screenshots posted in the chat. Hidden by default to keep the page light.

    10Methodology