Solana’s handling fees hit a new high, but validators faced the challenge of doubling their income due to inflation.

The Solana network's handling fees have recently reached a record high, but this amount of money has not made all validators happy. The Block reported that Solana validators have doubled the original rate of inflation reduction, which means that the supply of new SOL flowing into the market each year will decrease faster than originally planned.

Inflation reduction directly affects the income structure of validators. Part of the verification rewards comes from the newly issued SOL, and the reduction rate is accelerating, and the growth of this part of the income is also slowing down. In other words, if validators process the same number of transactions and undertake the same verification work, the new currency rewards they can receive will be smaller than in the past.

The record high of handling fees and the acceleration of inflation reduction occurred at the same time, but they pointed in opposite directions: on one side, there was immediate income that was increased by Internet usage, and on the other side, there was fixed income that was depressed after the long-term issuance was deliberately tightened. For validators, how the account is eventually balanced depends on whether fee income can make up for the gap left by the reduction in inflation.

The specific reduction range, implementation timetable or handling fee figures have not yet been disclosed, and relevant details remain to be explained later.