Morning Edition · Friday, July 3, 2026
Solana Proposal Routes Validator Pay Through On-Chain Contracts
A custom staker now sends validator revenue to a transparent distribution contract instead of an operator's hot wallet, testing what decentralization means in practice.
A proposal on Solana's research forum describes Steak, a custom staker deployed on the network's mainnet that routes validator revenue through an on-chain distribution contract rather than the identity hot wallet validators typically use. I…
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