Solana Insiders Wanted to Reduce Inflation, but It Failed. Here’s What the Proposal’s Author Thinks - Ep. 800

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The Solana ecosystem just completed a critical governance vote. SIMD-228, a proposal to tie Solana’s inflation rate to its staking participation rate, was put forward by Multicoin Capital and Anza, but despite a majority voting in favor, it failed to meet the required supermajority to pass.

Tushar Jain, co-founder and managing partner at Multicoin Capital, who co-authored the proposal, joins the show to discuss:

• Why he believes the proposal was necessary
• Whether inflation is too high for Solana’s long-term health
• If some validators voted against their own interests
• The silver lining of the governance process
• Why a smaller proposal focused on fee sharing did pass
• Whether Multicoin Capital will resubmit a revised proposal

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Guest

• Tushar Jain, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital

Links

• Unchained: Proposal to Cut SOL Inflation by 80% Fails After ‘Close Call’
• SIMD Vote Status
• Kayuza’s tweet

Timestamps:

🤝 0:00 Intro

🗳️ 3:09 Why Solana’s inflation rate was initially an afterthought

💰5:20 Why inflation became untenable

⚙️ 6:23 What does it take to right-size inflation for Solana

⚙️ 7:18 How SIMD-228 would have worked

🤯 11:00 Why Tushar “does not want to bet on people being dumb”

💰 15:48 How this could have strengthened DeFi on Solana

😕 17:49 Why Tushar was disappointed with the outcome but sees a silver lining

📚 19:49 Could the vote have been fairer?

⚖️ 22:06 Whether smaller validators would be unfairly hurt by SIMD-228

🔐 27:37 Does Solana pay too much for security?

📈 27:55 Would this have boosted the price of SOL?

✔️28:19 Whether validators should ask stakers how to vote

✅ 30:13 What the passing of SIMD-123 means for the network

🔄 32:40 Will Multicoin resubmit the proposal?

📰 34:50 News Recap

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