[WFC] Opinions on inflation on Kusama Network

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To respected founder and geeks here,

From this view of Kusama network

Kusama is wild and fast, and great for bold experimentation and early-stage thus In my opinion, Kusama network should not be too stable in any cases

This applies from technical to economic is the best, everything comes down to practicality and efficiency, right guys?

The 20% inflation reduction on Polkadot has just taken effect, It is good for Dot, but Kusama should not keep inflation stable as it is now, we have two options to continue our network mission, in my opinion they are

  1. Double the inflation
  2. Divide the current inflation in half

Both directions have a group of $KSM token holders supporting, so I wish we will have 2 proposals to vote

Looking forward to hear all feedback,

Thank you

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Perhaps it makes sense to see how the change affects Polkadot and make a decision about the Kusama.

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Not all experiments in Kusama need to be “wild”(i.e. doubling inflation), that’s not what being the canary means, experimentation should be meaningful thinking that it could be adopted by Polkadot in the future.
I would actually be interested in Kusama being used as an A/B test platform in this occasion to try a more conservative inflation configuration of 5% some people were proposing for Polkadot, if Kusama does well with said configuration Polkadot could adopt it in the future, if it turned out to be too much DOT holders will know they made the right decision.

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