Galaxy Research has proposed a new Weighted Voting Mechanism aimed at reducing the SOL inflation rate.

BlockBeats News, April 18th, according to Cointelegraph, cryptocurrency research firm Galaxy Research has proposed the "Multiple Election Stake-Weight Aggregation" (MESA) mechanism in the Solana community to reduce SOL's inflation rate. Researchers described the proposal as a "more market-oriented way to determine the future SOL inflation rate."

Unlike the traditional "yes/no" binary voting, MESA allows validators to vote on multiple inflation reduction levels, with the final result being determined through a weighted average. Galaxy stated: "Instead of continuously switching between inflation reduction proposals until one passes, it is better to allow validators to allocate voting weight to one or more proposals, and then take the weighted sum of all 'yes' votes as the final issuance curve."

The inspiration for this mechanism came from the earlier proposal SIMD-228. Although the community broadly supports reducing SOL's inflation rate, the binary voting mechanism has made it difficult to build consensus on specific parameters, leading to the failure of the proposal.