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Cardano proposal cuts minimum stake pool cost to 75 ADA
The change keeps the new fixed minimum at the pool operator’s discretion, but delegates in small pools could see thinner rewards after fixed charges are taken each epoch.
CryptoSlate reports that a new Cardano governance action proposes reducing the minimum stake pool cost floor from 170 ADA to 75 ADA. The proposal would cut the minimum without the Plutus memory-limit change that was included in the previous ballot, and it also drops one voting requirement that previously blocked that earlier action.
According to CryptoSlate, approval is still pending, and each stake pool operator would still set its own declared fee. The article explains that delegators in smaller pools can lose a large portion of a thin epoch reward to a fixed charge before their share is calculated, while operators rely on the fixed cost for income.
The earlier combined action expired on Sept. 1 after DRep yes votes reached 68.6%, above a 67% threshold, but stake pool operator support was only 34.5% of counted stake, below the 51% requirement. CryptoSlate says the earlier memory-limit component required a stake pool operator ballot, while this standalone proposal, submitted Sept. 11, changes only minPoolCost.
CryptoSlate adds that a cached DRepTalk tally checked Sept. 23 showed yes votes for the new action at 11.7% of counted DRep stake, against a 67% threshold, and that the vote could continue until epoch 661 on Oct. 11. It also illustrates the impact on small pools by noting that a pool with an approximately 300 ADA gross reward could have about 57% taken by a 170 ADA fixed cost versus about 25% with a 75 ADA fixed cost, before margins and distribution to stakers.