Galaxy Research's new proposal introduces a weighted voting mechanism aimed at reducing SOL inflation

BlockBeats News, on April 18, according to Cointelegraph, crypto research firm Galaxy Research proposed a "Multiple Election Stake-Weight Aggregation (MESA) mechanism in the Solana community, aiming to reduce the inflation rate of SOL. The researchers described the proposal as a “more market-oriented way to determine future SOL inflation rates.” Unlike traditional “yes/no” binary voting, MESA allows validators to vote on multiple inflation reductions, with the final result being a weighted average. “Rather than constantly changing inflation cuts until one passes, allow validators to assign voting weights to one or more proposals, and then use the weighted results of all ‘yes’ votes as the final issuance curve,” Galaxy said. The mechanism was inspired by the previous proposal, SIMD-228. Despite widespread community support for reducing SOL inflation, the proposal failed due to the difficulty of reaching consensus on specific parameters through the binary voting mechanism.