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
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.
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.
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.
The voting process has begun, follow the instructions here:
Epoch 755 has concluded and this proposal has passed:
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