Title says it all. Kusama and Polkadot have had the same validator count since their inception. What are the advantages and disadvantages of increasing the number of active validators? If we decide we want to increase the number of validators, what are the metrics that we should look at to indica…

I am bumping this thread, because there might now be a reason to increase the number of validators on Polkadot. Recently Polkadot was added to: https://nakaflow.io/ This keeps track of the Nakamoto Coefficient for various Proof of Stake chains. [image] At the time of writing this, Polkadot is r…

It is a good question. Not sure if anything has changed since the last time it was mentioned: [image] Polkadot - Gradual increase of active validator set to 372 validators Governance Dear Polkadot community, I am creating this post to initiate a discussion on a proposal …

We first need all validators to be parachain validators before adding more validators. We discuss approval voting paramaters in Better approval voting paramters · Issue #640 · paritytech/polkadot-sdk · GitHub , and fractional relayVrfModuloSamples needs implementaiton, but roughly… needed_approvals…

When is the right time to increase validator count on Polkadot / Kusama?

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CoinStudio December 19, 2023, 7:35pm 3

It is a good question. Not sure if anything has changed since the last time it was mentioned:

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Update: Polkadot validator set size increase Governance validators	2	570	March 10, 2025
Polkadot - Gradual increase of active validator set to 372 validators Governance	4	1013	July 4, 2023
Update: Parachain validator set size increase on Kusama Governance validators , kusama	4	673	July 9, 2024
Polkadot Digest 24 Jan 2025 Digest	0	50	January 24, 2025
Polkadot Digest 14 Jan 2025 Digest	0	41	January 14, 2025

When is the right time to increase validator count on Polkadot / Kusama?

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