# Proposal for an In-Protocol Distribution of Block Rewards to Stakers

**URL:** <https://forum.solana.com/t/proposal-for-an-in-protocol-distribution-of-block-rewards-to-stakers/3295>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Created:** [February 25, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/proposal-for-an-in-protocol-distribution-of-block-rewards-to-stakers/3295 "2025-02-25T00:30:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![laine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.solana.com/laine/32/176_2.png) [@laine](https://forum.solana.com/u/laine)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/proposal-for-an-in-protocol-distribution-of-block-rewards-to-stakers/3295/22 "2025-03-06T02:27:42Z")

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The stake weights for the voting on this proposal have been captured and published here:

SIMD-0123: [solgov-distributor/votes/simd0123 at master · laine-sa/solgov-distributor · GitHub](https://github.com/laine-sa/solgov-distributor/tree/master/votes/simd0123)

You can verify the stake weights until end of the current epoch (752) against any public mainnet-beta RPC node. At the start of the next epoch voting token claiming will be available for validators to cast their votes.

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**Author:** ![stakerRash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@stakerRash](https://forum.solana.com/u/stakerRash)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/proposal-for-an-in-protocol-distribution-of-block-rewards-to-stakers/3295/23 "2025-03-06T10:53:18Z")

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I agree, Ben. This is a great new feature, highly anticipated by many. However, it also accelerates a race to zero income for most public validators.

Stake pools will undoubtedly demand a share of block rewards, and validators with a 0% commission will have no sustainable revenue.

Jito’s tip-router has already announced they won’t take more than 50%, which seems fair. But what about other pools? If they follow suit, what’s left for validators? Zero.

I believe that as long as this feature isn’t released, we can maintain a larger cohort of validators.

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**Author:** ![SeedVault](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.solana.com/seedvault/32/854_2.png) [@SeedVault](https://forum.solana.com/u/SeedVault)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/proposal-for-an-in-protocol-distribution-of-block-rewards-to-stakers/3295/24 "2025-03-06T20:14:34Z")

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I believe the two main concerns for smaller validators are: firstly, that protocol-defined block reward distribution would become embedded as a requirement for SFDP, similar to what happened previously with Jito; and secondly, that relief measures aimed at smaller validators—such as reducing voting costs—remain undecided. Unless these two points are clarified first, I don’t think the voting process can meaningfully address the evaluation criteria of decentralization.

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**Author:** ![laine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.solana.com/laine/32/176_2.png) [@laine](https://forum.solana.com/u/laine)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/proposal-for-an-in-protocol-distribution-of-block-rewards-to-stakers/3295/25 "2025-03-08T19:05:30Z")

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The voting process has begun, follow the instructions here:

> **[solgov-distributor/votes/simd0123 at master · laine-sa/solgov-distributor](https://github.com/laine-sa/solgov-distributor/tree/master/votes/simd0123)**
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> A merkle-based token distributor for the Solana network that allows distributing a combination of unlocked and linearly unlocked tokens. - laine-sa/solgov-distributor

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**Author:** ![laine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.solana.com/laine/32/176_2.png) [@laine](https://forum.solana.com/u/laine)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.solana.com/t/proposal-for-an-in-protocol-distribution-of-block-rewards-to-stakers/3295/26 "2025-03-14T00:25:12Z")

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Epoch 755 has concluded and this proposal has passed:

```auto
     YES | 42.2700% | 160254899404160713
      NO | 14.1500% | 53663820927507988
 ABSTAIN | 0.6800% | 2586661597230866

YES RATE | 74.9139%
 NO RATE | 25.0860%

    CAST | 57.1100% | 216505381928899567
  SUPPLY | 100.0000% | 379050125089013001

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