At the most recent consensus meeting of ethereum core developers on Friday, Michael Neuder, an Ethereum Foundation researcher and leading proponent of the proposed change, proposed increasing the maximum validator balance per validator from 32 ETH to 2,048 ETH. While the current (32 ETH) validator cap promotes decentralization, it inadvertently leads to validator set size inflation, he said. Neuder said raising the cap could slow the expansion of the active validator set — ultimately increasing the network’s efficiency in achieving finality within a single ethereum slot. The proposed increased cap will also introduce the possibility of automatically compounding validator rewards.

At the most recent consensus meeting of ethereum core developers on Friday, Michael Neuder, an Ethereum Foundation researcher and leading proponent of the proposed change, proposed increasing the maximum validator balance per validator from 32 ETH to 2,048 ETH. While the current (32 ETH) validator cap promotes decentralization, it inadvertently leads to validator set size inflation, he said. Neuder said raising the cap could slow the expansion of the active validator set — ultimately increasing the network’s efficiency in achieving finality within a single ethereum slot. The proposed increased cap will also introduce the possibility of automatically compounding validator rewards.