Jeff (squijello)

If Ethereum provides native delegation, why should a user's choice of commercial staking provider determine L1 consensus routing? Introducing Native Ethereum Delegation (NED) / the Flanders Protocol. A protocol-routed delegation primitive with bounded consensus amplification. 🧵

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The core problem with identity-local penalties (like declining reward curves) is hidden ownership. Sybil-splitting makes subdivision cheaper. NED uses a linear allocation target: Dᵢ = uBᵢ Creating more validator identities doesn't increase target delegation.

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But how do you bound selective delegation amplification without an ownership oracle? By using a Delegation Concentration Envelope (DCE). Instead of punishing the network for one outlier, we ask: how much delegated weight can actually fit inside any given base slice?

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For a protected pre-NED coalition \kappa, threshold \tau, and eligible coverage e, the hard full-network bound is: κ + γC(min(κ, e)) ≤ τ(1 + γd) This yields a simple scaling property: Flanders earns scale by earning coverage.

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