According to official news, aelf announced the addition of two new block producer (BP) seats, aiming to further enhance network security and decentralization. According to aelf’s contract framework, the total number of BPs in the network is capped at 2N+1, of which N will be 8 starting in 2022 and increasing by 1 each year thereafter. Since the successful node election in early 2022, aelf has welcomed the first batch of 17 nodes. The addition of two additional BP seats this time brings the current number of BPs to 21. It is reported that aelf governance participants are eligible to receive ELF tokens as rewards.