Bankless · Monday, August 10, 2026
Despite criticisms, the EIP's goal of preserving vanilla ETH and enabling self-sovereign holding is acknowledged as a noble intention. This would allow users to hold ETH without needing intermediaries like Lido or Rocketpool, aligning with Ethereum's ethos of reducing reliance on third parties. The discussion contrasted nominal yield (ETH issuance) with real yield (transaction fees and burns), suggesting the proposal aims to eliminate the 'nominal yield game'.
“The idea of preserving vanilla ether. and enabling end users to hold vanilla ether without being inflated away is noble to me. And that's one of the spirits behind this proposal is that Vanilla Ether, you shouldn't be compelled to have to put your Ether inside of Lido or Rocketpool or EtherFi because those are all intermediaries in a sense.”
“It's very self-sovereign. It's very Bitcoin-like. It's very hard money, sound money. And, you know, Aved, Stani, to a little bit of your point, the Japanese yen carry trade is there's a conflation on real yield and nominal yield.”
“Real yield is the transaction fees that are paid to stakers. And then maybe you also want to count burn in that as well. That's real yield. And the nominal yield is really just a financial game. And with this stake targeting EIP, stake tapering, we just remove the whole game around nominal yields that people do love to play.”