Ethereum Foundation researcher Michael Neuder has put forward a proposal to increase the maximum effective balance of Ethereum validators from the current 32 to 2048 ETH.
The change is expected to reduce the complexity of the staking infrastructure for large validators and improve the user experience if implemented.
Increased Ethereum Eye Stake Limit
The minimum and maximum effective balances of Ethereum validators have been capped at 32 ETH since the network’s successful transition to the proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism last year. However, a new proposal from Ethereum Foundation researcher Michael Neuder aims to increase that number significantly.
The current limit of 32 ETH makes it impossible for validators to earn interest on ether staked beyond that number. Neuder’s proposed change is intended to remove this limit and unlock various benefits for validators.
While the current 32 ETH has made the Ethereum network more decentralized than ever, with 600,000 active validators and counting, the proposed change will allow validators to gain more interest and reduce infrastructure complexity as they will no longer need to deploy Millions of validators containing 32 ETH. nodes, just to increase their performance.
Additionally, the team has clarified that increasing the maximum effective balance to 2048 will significantly reduce the load on the peer-to-peer layer of the network caused by the massive volume of messages.
The team claims that the increase will also make it easier to implement future updates to the Ethereum roadmap, among other benefits.
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During the recently concluded Ethereum All Core Developer Consensus (ACDC) call #111, the team also discussed other potential adjustments to the network, including changes to validator certification and aggregation deadlines and more.
