Solana's Alpenglow Admission Ticket: 8 validators short by epoch 1067
- —Alpenglow went live in epoch 1064, which began around 13:36 UTC on October 21
- —The vote account must hold 0.8197612 SOL; the fee is burned each epoch
- —In epoch 1063, 33 validators with 7.63 million SOL (1.74% of stake) were below the threshold
- —Marinade added a vatIneligible rule and cut its stake on such validators to 10 SOL by epoch 1066
Why it matters: The fee filters out underfunded validators, and delegation programs like Marinade now exclude them from stake auctions on their own.
Source: NullTX