Weekly DeFi Index

This week’s market cap and volume indices were positive at +10.89% and +10.87%, respectively, while the volatility index was negative at -34.43%.

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On their latest AllCoreDevs call, Ethereum core developers agreed to add EIP-7514 as part of the forthcoming Ethereum Dencun upgrade, focusing on staking and validator rewards. EIP-7514 will establish a fixed Max Epoch Churn Limit for the validator activation queue, setting the upper limit to eight (this variable was previously derived from “total number of validators/65536”, which is approximately 12/epoch) and without affecting the withdrawal queue. This Epoch Churn Limit will change the validator growth rate from exponential to linear. 

The proposal is intended to address concerns about the rapid growth of the Ethereum network and aims to slow down the growth of the ETH staking rate, thereby providing the Ethereum community additional time to craft an improved validator reward scheme. The latest data shows there are currently about 26.85 million ETH staked, which represents 22.32% of the total ETH supply.





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DeFi & L1L2 Weekly (20/09/2023)

Ethereum’s new Holesky testnet delayed after launch failure. Cosmos Hub rolls out Gaia v12 to add a liquid staking module. Optimism announces third round of community token airdrops.

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