Solana Inflation Reform Fails As Vote Ends In Defeat
In a remarkable showcase of on-chain governance, a proposal aimed at cutting Solana’s inflation rate by 80%—identified as SIMD-228—has officially failed to meet the vote threshold required for passage. The motion, which generated extraordinary turnout across the Solana ecosystem, was rejected in the final stages of polling when numerous smaller validators voted “No,” tipping the […]
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Galaxy Research has returned to the Solana governance arena with a fresh proposal that seeks to sidestep the deadlock that stymied last month’s SIMD‑228 vote on inflation. Published on GitHub on April 17 and titled “Multiple Election Stake‑Weight Aggregation (MESA) Vote for Reducing Inflation,” the document lays out a procedure that would let validators express […]
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