Staking platform Lido’s share of staked ether (ETH) has continued to fall, which ought to cut back considerations about focus within the Ethereum community, elevating the prospect that ETH will not be designated as a safety sooner or later, JPMorgan (JPM) stated in a analysis report on Wednesday.

“The share of Lido in staked ETH has decreased farther from round one third a yr in the past to round 1 / 4 for the time being,” analysts led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou wrote.

The Hinman paperwork, which had been launched final June, “revealed the function of community decentralization within the SEC’s pondering on whether or not a digital token ought to be categorised as a safety or not,” the analysts wrote.

JPMorgan notes that officers from the Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC) had acknowledged prior to now that “tokens on a sufficiently decentralized community are now not securities as there isn’t any controlling group within the Howey sense.”

The Howey Take a look at pertains to the U.S. Supreme Court docket case to find out whether or not a transaction qualifies as an funding contract. If a transaction is taken into account to be an funding contract, it’s categorised as a safety.

The latest Dencun improve ought to “assist Ethereum to extend its dominance towards different layer 1 blockchains and to recapture the misplaced market share attributable to earlier scalability points,” the report added.