Galaxy Research proposes new voting system to reduce Solana inflation
18 Aprile 2025 - 5:12AM
Cointelegraph


Crypto 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.
On April 17, Galaxy introduced a Solana proposal called
“Multiple Election Stake-Weight Aggregation” (MESA) to reduce the
inflation rate of its native token, SOL (SOL). The
researchers described the proposal
as a “more market-based approach to agreeing on the rate of future
SOL emissions.”
Rather 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.
“Instead 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 ‘yes’ outcomes becoming the
adopted emissions curve?” Galaxy explained.
The 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’t find
consensus on specific parameters.
SIMD-228 proposed to change Solana’s inflation system from a
fixed schedule to a dynamic, market-based model.
The new proposal suggests maintaining the fixed, terminal
inflation rate at 1.5% and sets forth multiple outcomes that create
multiple ‘yes’ voting options with different deflation rates from
which an average is aggregated if a quorum is reached.
For 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.
Predicted
inflation curves under new voting proposal. Source:
Galaxy Digital
Solving problems with binary voting
The 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.
“Galaxy Research seeks to suggest a genuinely alternative
process to achieving what we believe is the community’s broad goal,
and not necessarily proscribe any particular inflation rate
outcome,” the firm explained.
Related: Solana upgrades will strengthen network but
squeeze validators — VanEck
Under the current mechanism, supply inflation begins at 8%
annually, decreasing by 15% per year until it reaches 1.5%.
Solana’s current inflation rate is 4.6%, and 64.7% of the total
supply, or 387 million SOL, is currently staked,
according to Solana Compass.
Galaxy affiliate Galaxy Strategic Opportunities provides staking
and validation services for Solana.
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