Polygon Community Proposes Base Reward System to Address Validator Income Disparities

Polygon's community has introduced a proposal aimed at implementing a base reward system to address income disparities among validators of varying sizes. According to Foresight News, the proposal suggests extracting a fixed reward from the fee pool to be evenly distributed among all validators meeting performance standards before proportional distribution. Simulation data indicates that this mechanism would slightly reduce the fee income of large validators by approximately 11%, while ensuring that medium and small validators can achieve a balance between income and expenses. This approach seeks to enhance network decentralization by resolving horizontal inequalities among validators. The proposal highlights that the current system allocates priority fees entirely based on staking proportion, resulting in about 66% of validators being unable to cover the monthly infrastructure cost of 8,523 POL, equivalent to approximately $929. Meanwhile, the top five validators account for 42.1% of the total fee income.