{"id":127440,"date":"2025-04-18T04:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T04:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=127440"},"modified":"2025-04-18T04:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T04:15:26","slug":"galaxy-research-proposes-new-voting-system-to-reduce-solana-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=127440","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Research proposes new voting system to reduce Solana inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsCrypto research firm Galaxy Research has made a proposal to adjust the voting system that decides the outcome of future Solana inflation following the failure to come to a consensus in a previous vote.<br \/>\nOn April 17, Galaxy introduced a Solana proposal called \u201cMultiple Election Stake-Weight Aggregation\u201d (MESA) to reduce the inflation rate of its native token, SOL (SOL). The researchers described the proposal as a \u201cmore market-based approach to agreeing on the rate of future SOL emissions.\u201d<br \/>\nRather than using traditional yes\/no voting for inflation rates, MESA allows validators to vote on multiple deflation rates and uses the weighted average as the outcome.<br \/>\n\u201cInstead of cycling through inflation reduction proposals until one passes, what if validators could allocate their votes to one or many changes, with the aggregate of \u2018yes\u2019 outcomes becoming the adopted emissions curve?\u201d Galaxy explained.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nThe motivation for the concept comes from a previous proposal (SIMD-228), which showed community agreement that SOL inflation should be reduced, but the binary voting system couldn\u2019t find consensus on specific parameters.\u00a0<br \/>\nSIMD-228 proposed to change Solana\u2019s inflation system from a fixed schedule to a dynamic, market-based model.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe new proposal suggests maintaining the fixed, terminal inflation rate at 1.5% and sets forth multiple outcomes that create multiple \u2018yes\u2019 voting options with different deflation rates from which an average is aggregated if a quorum is reached.\u00a0<br \/>\nFor example, if 5% vote for no change, remaining at 15% deflation, 50% vote for a 30% deflation rate, and 45% vote for 33%, the new deflation rate would be calculated as the aggregate at 30.6%. The target is to reach the terminal rate of 1.5% supply inflation.\u00a0<br \/>\nPredicted inflation curves under new voting proposal. Source: Galaxy Digital\u00a0Solving problems with binary voting\u00a0<br \/>\nThe benefits are that a more market-driven system allows validators to express preferences along a spectrum rather than with binary choices, while maintaining predictability with a fixed inflation curve.<br \/>\n\u201cGalaxy Research seeks to suggest a genuinely alternative process to achieving what we believe is the community\u2019s broad goal, and not necessarily proscribe any particular inflation rate outcome,\u201d the firm explained.\u00a0<br \/>\nRelated: Solana upgrades will strengthen network but squeeze validators \u2014 VanEck<br \/>\nUnder the current mechanism, supply inflation begins at 8% annually, decreasing by 15% per year until it reaches 1.5%. Solana\u2019s current inflation rate is 4.6%, and 64.7% of the total supply, or 387 million SOL, is currently staked, according to Solana Compass.\u00a0<br \/>\nGalaxy affiliate Galaxy Strategic Opportunities provides staking and validation services for Solana.<br \/>\nMagazine: Memecoin degeneracy is funding groundbreaking anti-aging research<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/galaxy-proposes-new-voting-system-to-reduce-solana-inflation?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsCrypto research firm Galaxy Research has made a proposal to adjust the voting system that decides the outcome of future Solana inflation following the failure to come to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127440"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}