Solana Tightens Validator Funding Rules: 12-Month Term, Auto-Exit Above 300,000 SOL

Cointime update: The Solana Foundation is overhauling its delegation program (SFDP), setting a 12-month participation limit for validators, automatically graduating validators once they reach 300,000 SOL in stake, capping the validator count at 100 and requiring participants to run their own nodes, foundation VP of technology Jacob Creech said. Creech said reducing validator numbers is not the goal, though a decline could be a side effect, and more than 100 validators have already applied to keep receiving support.