Community Poll: Deciding on Validator Fee Distribution Rule

Dear Human Nodes,

Following our recent announcement regarding the temporary change to the validator fee distribution, we’ve seen an outpouring of thoughtful suggestions and valuable discussion from the community.

First off, thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts, and as always, we want to ensure that important decisions are made not only with transparency but with fairness and community involvement.

There were a few thoughtful suggestions from community members, like Lorento suggested a model where those who complete 84/84 receive the baseline rewards to cover server costs, and the rest are distributed among 1000 randomly selected human nodes.

CabirBTC suggested increasing the cap to 1400 and splitting the full amount among them, while pausing new validator entries to maintain balance. 

These ideas reflect the same core values that built Humanode: fairness, sustainability, and shared ownership.

As mentioned in our previous announcement, the upcoming cycle will introduce a temporary change, where only 1000 nodes will receive validator rewards. 

While this update is intended to safeguard the sustainability of the network in the short term, we understand that there are different ways to approach this situation and different perspectives on what “fair” looks like.

So, in true Humanode fashion (one human = one vote), we’re opening this up to you.

We are conducting a poll in Humanode Discord ⁠sr-polls channel, where human nodes can choose from the following suggested options. 

1. 1000 validators with 84/84 get $25/month, chosen randomly,
2. All 84/84 validators share the fees equally, but the amount of fees is reduced (amount depends on total number),
3. All 84/84 validators get $10, and the rest of the fee goes to 1000 randomly selected validators,

Note: Random Selection is temporary until we have PoT/PoD. Also for the current cycle the validator rewards will be distributed as per the current distribution rules. 

Vote here: ⁠sr-polls⁠

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We encourage every validator and community member to participate and help us shape a system that reflects the true spirit of decentralized decision-making. 

Thank you

Humanode Core