Solana’s Double Disinflation Vote Passes by a Hair as SOL Trades at $104.28

What’s confirmed: Two independent outlets, Decrypt and CoinDesk, report that a Solana network-wide vote on a proposal called “Double Disinflation” passed by an extremely narrow margin after validators tied to Kraken swung their votes late in the process. Decrypt additionally reports that a separate fee-burning proposal failed in the same round; this detail could not be cross-checked against CoinDesk’s coverage, whose page was inaccessible behind a browser verification screen at the time of writing.

A vote that came down to the wire

The Double Disinflation proposal aims to accelerate the reduction of new SOL issuance on the network, meaning fewer tokens minted per epoch than under Solana’s current schedule. Both outlets describe the outcome as dramatic, with the measure squeaking through rather than passing comfortably.

Kraken’s validator stake was the pivot point. Decrypt says the exchange “nearly sank” the proposal, while CoinDesk reports that Kraken and validators linked to Galaxy switched sides before the tally closed. Both descriptions point to the same underlying event: large staked validators holding enough weight to flip a close result, and doing so near the deadline.

What is confirmed twice, and what is not

The passage of Double Disinflation and Kraken’s decisive, last-minute role are corroborated across both reports. Two other claims sit on weaker footing. Decrypt states that a separate fee-burning measure failed in the same vote; this has not been independently verified here since CoinDesk’s full article was not retrievable. CoinDesk describes the vote as Solana’s first network-wide governance vote, a framing that likewise did not appear confirmable in the parallel source.

Neither outlet supplied the actual vote tally or the percentage margin by which the proposal passed, only that it was narrow. Readers should treat any specific percentage circulating elsewhere as unconfirmed until a primary vote record is published.

SOL price context: correlation, not confirmed causation

SOL traded at $104.28 at the time Decrypt’s report was captured, down 3.22% on the day. That move sits alongside a broader pullback across major assets in the same snapshot, including Bitcoin down 3.23% and Ether down 2.57%, which suggests a market-wide risk-off session rather than a reaction specific to the governance vote. No source ties the SOL price move directly to the vote outcome, and this article does not claim one caused the other.

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For now, the practical takeaway is narrow but concrete: Solana’s issuance curve is set to bend lower following the vote, validator-level swing votes decided the outcome, and the fee-burn proposal’s fate remains attributed to a single source pending further confirmation.

Sources

• decrypt.co
• coindesk.com