@solana has recently pushed forward 3 major Governance Proposals, all pointing to the same broader theme: redesigning how the network is governed and how value accrues to SOL.
・SGP-0001 | Solana Constitution Establishes a formal stake-weighted governance framework for major protocol decisions.
・SGP-0002 | Double Disinflation Raises the annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30%, bringing SOL to its 1.5% terminal inflation faster and reducing issuance by ~18.9M SOL over 6 years.
・SGP-0003 | Resource & Inclusion Fee Proposed redesigning transaction fees so higher resource usage would generate higher fees, with the resource-fee portion 100% burned.
Put together, Solana is tackling three fundamental questions:
→ Who governs the network
→ How much SOL gets issued
→ How network activity accrues value back to SOL
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#2 Among the three, the market is paying the most attention to SGP-0002, which has just passed.
The proposal doubles @solana’s annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30%, shortening the path to the 1.5% terminal inflation rate from ~5.7 years to ~2.8 years, and reducing cumulative SOL issuance by roughly 18.9M over six years.
The bigger picture: Solana’s early security model relied heavily on issuance:
SOL issuance → staking rewards → validators → network security
But a mature L1 should increasingly be supported by real economic activity:
Network usage → fees / MEV → validator economics
SGP-0002 accelerates that transition by reducing reliance on inflation-funded security.
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#3 Today, @solana pays ~23.2M SOL/year in staking rewards (~$2.41B at $104), while users generate only ~$195M (13 weeks annualised) in chain fees. Fees cover just ~8% of the staking budget; inflation funds the rest.
By 2029, the bar is roughly $20M/week in fees vs. ~$3.7M today — close to doubling every year. Ideally, that growth comes from sticky activity like payments, DeFi and RWA.
The tension: Solana is also pushing transaction costs lower through SGP-0003. Lower revenue per transaction means volume has to scale even faster.
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Sep 3, 2026 · 4:37 AM UTC
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#4 The next catalyst to watch comes in October: Alpenglow.
Alpenglow is one of @solana’s biggest consensus upgrades, replacing TowerBFT with a new voting system called Votor.
The goal is simple: make consensus much faster and lighter.
・TowerBFT → Votor
・Finality: ~12.8s → target ~150ms
・Lower validator voting overhead
・Faster, more efficient consensus
If SGP-0002 is about reducing SOL dilution, Alpenglow is about improving network efficiency.
Put together, Solana’s direction is becoming clearer:
lower issuance + faster finality + more efficient consensus
In other words, moving from an L1 that relies heavily on inflation subsidies toward one increasingly supported by real economic activity.
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Solana keeps getting faster, more capable, and more resilient.
Track Alpenglow, p-token, larger transaction sizes, 200ms slot times, and every major network upgrade in one place:
solana.com/upgrades
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