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Aug 5, 2019

This episode is a discussion on the impact of 0% fee validators between Brian Crain (Chorus One), Sunny Aggarwal (SikkaTech/Tendermint), Michael Perklin (ShapeShift), and Chris Remus (Chainflow). The discussion covers the trend towards no commission validators on the Cosmos Hub and opinions on whether this trajectory harms the network as a whole. The discussion also covers experiences on other networks, differentiation between validators, and goes into whether a protocol could or should be designed to intervene in such a market.

Links:

Signaling proposal “Are Validators Charging 0% Commission Harmful to the Success of the Cosmos Hub?”: https://hubble.figment.network/cosmos/chains/cosmoshub-2/governance/proposals/12

Cosmos forum discussions on this topic:
https://forum.cosmos.network/t/proposal-are-validators-charging-0-commission-harmful-to-the-success-of-the-cosmos-hub/

https://forum.cosmos.network/t/on-the-interrelationship-between-the-security-budget-and-the-business-prospects-of-the-cosmos-network/

Chorus One: https://chorus.one

SikkaTech: https://www.sikka.tech/
Shapeshift: https://shapeshift.io/

Chainflow: https://chainflow.io/