The Solana community has started voting on two bills of currency economic governance, focusing on accelerating the decline in SOL inflation and introducing new mechanisms to charge for resource consumption. Early data on the chain indicate that both proposals are currently receiving high support, but the debate over the certificationer ' s income, the developer ' s cost and the space for application design is also expanding simultaneously.
Simultaneous voting on two proposals
SGP-002 The core, proposed by Helius members, is to double the rate of de-inflation of SOL, bringing the network to 1.5% of long-term inflation earlier. It is envisaged that this objective will be achieved approximately three years ahead of schedule.
SGP-003 Proposed by Temporal members to introduce a resource-cost mechanism. The mechanism would charge higher fees depending on the complexity of the process and the availability of resources, with the aim of promoting the application to improve efficiency in implementation and to enhance the value of SOL.
Both ballots will continue until the end of epoch 1024, which is roughly around 28 September. The voting in the current chain showed that, although there was still a gap between 33 per cent of the pledge threshold for participation, more than 96 per cent of the early polls supported both proposals.
Resource costs cause disagreement among developers
Around SGP-003, opposition is mainly from the application development side. Ellipsis Labs CEO Eugene Chen said that resource costs could turn Solana into a "failer landing environment" for application. In his view, if the costs rise with the complexity of the process, some of the complex applications will be squeezed by increased costs, which may also reduce innovative design by developers.
Manifest also objected to this proposal. The team believes that resource-cost mechanisms may be more conducive to certain specific structures and force developers to write more complex codes, thus creating higher chain security risks.
However, proponents believe that the resource costs themselves are intended to make space use more efficient. The author of the proposal stated that this would force developers to optimise the code rather than relying on high resource consumption design for the long term. Some engineers also supported this view, arguing that Solana needed a clearer way of pricing resources to improve the utilization of the network.
The certifier is concerned with income changes
The dispute over SGP-002 is more focused on the proceeds of certification. Many SOL holders in the community support a faster reduction in inflation, which is seen as helping to improve the currency supply structure. However, some of the certifiers are concerned that the rapid decline in inflation will directly reduce their revenues, thereby affecting the incentives for nodal operation.
The differences between support and opposition reflect differences of interest in chain governance. Certifying officers are more interested in the return on net security inputs, and developers are more interested in applying operating costs and product design space, while ordinary currency holders are more inclined to support programmes that benefit SOL scarcity.
Under the new regime of Solana, the pledge is now able to vote directly without relying entirely on the certifying officer. This means that the final outcome may still change with the influx of subsequent ballots. A previous proposal for a SOL distribution mechanism was reversed by a follow-up vote after early support.