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In a Proof of Stake network like Solana (SOL), it is important to maximize both the total number of high-quality Validators on the network, and the distribution of stake amongst those nodes. That is why they created the Solana Foundation Delegation Program.
The Delegation Program promotes the growth and security of the Solana network by strategically delegating SOL to the new and existing validators who meet certain performance and decentralization criteria.
Since June 2021, over 320 new validators have come online, reflecting the exploding interest in all levels of the Solana ecosystem. Today, the Solana Mainnet Beta is secured by 896 staked validators located in 28 different countries across 150 different data centers and 92 unique ASNs.
This broad distribution of stake and physical infrastructure helps keep the Solana network secure and robust against attacks or failures, ensuring it remains accessible to everyone, always.
It helps to recap on the Delegation Program and other initiatives the Solana Foundation is focused on:
On the Permissionless Solana network, anyone can participate in helping to secure the network as a validator. The Solana Foundation encourages new and existing validators to maintain high-quality operations via the incentive structure of our Delegation Program.
Validator operators and RPC node operators may choose to participate in our Server Program to locate their operations in data centers distributed around the globe.
Community members and token holders can choose to participate in Stake Pools to directly increase the censorship resistance of the network while potentially earning tokens at the same time.
Ultimately, the Solana Foundation is working to make the Solana protocol the most censorship-resistant network in the world. A robust community of independent validators forms the backbone of the Solana network.
Community response: Solana is Proof of history, is it not? Proof of history is an evolution of Proof of stake.
Solana creates an illusion of decentralization of validators by hiding the fact that PoH is only possible because, at any given moment, a Leader is selected based on PoS to generate the PoH hashing sequence.
Once the PoH sequence is generated, all that validators do is to verify if the sequence is in order or out of order. Thus, the validators can only prove that the order is ‘unchanged’ but cannot provide the ground truth in the creation of the order itself.
Therefore, the leader, both the election and action thereof, becomes a single point of failure, attack, or corruption.
