SIMD-550 should be much less contentious than SIMD-228 because of its simplicity. It keeps Solana’s current emissions model intact, but accelerates the path to 1.5% terminal inflation to a little under 3 years, versus nearly 6 today.
As Solana matures, reducing nominal staking yields is a necessary tradeoff to limit dilution and strengthen SOL’s value accrual by lowering the ongoing issuance burden on tokenholders.
Soon, SOL stakers can vote in governance
We believe SIMD-550 is the ideal proposal to begin
A simple path to reducing SOL inflation
It’s time to let stakers vote