Aptos community proposal to cut staking rewards by nearly 50% faces pushback

An Aptos community member submitted a proposal on April 18 to slash staking rewards for the network’s native token, Aptos (APT), by nearly 50%The proposal, submitted by a community member called MoonSheisty, aims at reducing reward yields from 7% to 3. 79% in a three-month period, aligning Aptos staking rewards with other layer-1 blockchains and encouraging capital efficiency. The proposal has sparked curiosity on X, but early comments on GitHub show some initial resistance. A community member going by ElagabalxNode noted that reducing the staking reward without “compensatory mechanisms like a robust delegation program” could push smaller validators out of the network, thus weakening the Aptos blockchain’s decentralization and long-term resistance source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/aptos-community-proposal-to-cut-staking-rewards-by-nearly-50-faces-pushback?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound