CRYPTOSTORY 531· AUGUST 12, 2026

Ethereum staking hits 34 percent, and a new proposal would shrink validator rewards the higher that share climbs

More than a third of all Ether is now locked up as staking collateral, and researchers want to use that crowding against the validators earning from it. Staking, in plain terms, means depositing $ETH into the Ethereum network as a security…

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