EIP-8390
Remove the Sync Committee
Remove the onchain Altair sync committee and its rewards, superseded by offchain ZK proofs
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- Draft22 Aug 2026
Abstract
Remove the sync committee from the consensus layer, and with it the Altair light client protocol, which depends on it entirely. SYNC_REWARD_WEIGHT goes too, so consensus issuance falls by 2/64. The sync committee exists because a light client could not verify the whole validator set. ZK proving has since made that verification practical, so the sample is no longer needed.
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- 22 Aug 2026
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- Lion
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