According to Odaily Planet Daily, Ethereum Foundation researcher Devansh Mehta proposed a validator income redistribution scheme at the EthCC conference. The scheme proposes allowing validators to signal at the consensus layer that they can independently decide to redirect a certain percentage of their staking rewards to a designated smart contract, instead of withdrawing all of it to their personal wallets. The recipients could be public goods financing platforms such as Gitcoin and Octant, security auditing firms, or the core protocol research team. This scheme involves two execution-layer changes: the signaling of the validator redirection percentage, and the logic implementation of fund allocation to the designated contract.