Over 100 Validators Apply to Continue Receiving Support; Solana Foundation Says Reducing Validators Is Not the Goal of the Adjustment

Odaily reports: Solana Foundation Vice President of Technology Jacob Creech responded that reducing the number of validators is not the goal of the delegation program adjustment; if enough high-quality contributors cannot be found, a decline in the number of validators may be a side effect. Currently, more than 100 validators have submitted materials to apply to continue receiving support.

He stated that SFDP was originally designed to help new validators get started, establish a healthy testnet, and allow some validators to test network updates in advance. As the ecosystem expands, the foundation plans to shift toward a more proactive and flexible delegation mechanism, focusing on supporting network health and ecosystem contributors; SFDP will still support new validators, and the foundation will also reward validators who make important contributions to network health through out-of-program delegation. Participants need to run validator nodes themselves. The foundation has previously delegated staking to ecosystem contributors such as Blueshift and has also supported validators who were the first to test Frankendancer.