The centralization of Ethereum's liquid staking providers appears to be an area of concern for the Ethereum co-founder.
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, mulled changes to Ethereum staking that could decrease centralization in a blog post.
The post also discusses the tradeoffs of adding certain protocols to Ethereum’s base layer versus building them “on top.Connect/Create WalletNo wallet? No problem. You can set one up for free. We recommend Torus for first-time users.Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has shared a blog post outlining his opinion on adding certain protocols to Ethereum’s code versus keeping them “on top” of the blockchain.
Rather than relying on “moralistic pressure” to encourage using a more diverse set of staking providers, Buterin in his post contemplates changes to Ethereum’s protocol that would further decentralize liquid staking. This could include tweaking liquid staking provider RocketPool’s approach or giving a randomly sampled committee of small stakers extra governance powers.
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