The Validator Fellows initiative will not be put in place.
We are allocating the funds to boost chain activity, as @kobov9000 alluded to, towards a Compound Fork as well as AI developments.
For @cryptotech and @peaceloveharmony’s questions regarding VDAO and HIPs, we are currently working on updating governance, reflected in the most recent HIP-31 that references previous HIPs 15 and 21 in order to improve governance. We have also opened HIPs to all validators to provide a more inclusive approach to proposals.
So, we can consider that the previous terms payment that were left hanging , will be finally concluded? Well, you guys now have 200 million motives to pay
Why did you lead us to believe there would be help for smaller active validators still? Who exactly decided not to help anymore and why? In the name of decentralization doesn’t make any sense at all, so what is it? I was told that there would be extra help on top of the staking initiative from StakeDAO. HIP-30v2: Change to 2 shards & Split 25% emission for recovery - #30 by theo1
I don’t even have any foundation stake but I was complicit in leading validators to believe there would be help when the median stake get raised from hip-30v2 because that’s what was said.
Now that the hip passed to take it back is quite the slap in the face. I thought the team was getting past this and trying to be more transparent. Boy was I wrong.
To top that off, they covered the ‘changes’ that they were going to make in this post:
There’s no mention of dropping or changing the fellowship there. How was the fellowship dropped between these posts and the snapshot post that @nickv posted on behalf of the team?
