Hi, I’m Matthew Light.
My background is software development and architecture as well as crypto trading and finance.
I have been involved in Ethereum since 2016. I wrote EIP-186 which the community approved and which was added to EIP-649 and went live with Byzantium in 2017.
I have been heavily involved with other issuance and monetary policy EIPs which were adopted by Ethereum.
I have a current focus on Ethereum’s credible neutrality and fostering the development of credibly neutral Ethereum infrastructure extensions such as L2s, bridges, staking infrastructure, MEV, and restaking. I believe that community stewardship and ownership of these aspects of the broader Ethereum platform is critically important to avoid capture of the protocol by private interests.
I am also interested in fostering an improvement of Ethereum community norms away from value extractive activity (PvP) towards growing the ecosystem’s potential and opportunity (PvE).
I also have a particular interest in the Ethereum staking situation. I pushed hard before the beacon chain went live to “bend the curve” to discourage excess staking based on the experience of other proof-of-stake platforms.
In my view, we already have far too much staking (15% would be pretty optimal) and staking / liquid staking / restaking at current levels (31%) growing towards 50-85% staked as we see in other proof-of-stake platforms carries heavy risks to the entire platform and to the the projects built on it.
I would like to collaborate with the community to put a hard stop to the growth of staking and even look at ways to gradually reduce it over time to a limit of ~20% of total ETH.