Thread by @staderlabs

At Stader, we are introducing important changes to our stake pools.

This is to help improve decentralization on Terra and give our dear #LUNAtics more staking options.

Here are the details:

At Stader, we are working hard to help decentralization on @terra_money.

On the other hand, ensuring safety of your funds is paramount.

Therefore, we have strict criteria for validator selection.

Here are the changes we are introducing to the pools:

Currently, our stake pools have over 4.6 million $LUNA TVL.

Over 10,000 unique wallets delegate with us.

There are 3 validator pools on Stader:

- Blue Chip
- Community
- Airdrops Plus

In order to be a part of Stader pools, validators need to meet the following criteria:

- Uptime > 99.85% (averaged over a one month period at the time of selection)

- No slashing in the past three months

- 1 or 2 pool-specific criteria

In order to promote decentralization, we are introducing the following changes soon:

Change #1:

We are adjusting the voting power criteria in the Blue Chip pool.

In the past..

Validators with Voting Power less than 5% and greater than 1% were eligible.

With this change..

We will only consider those with a Voting Power less than 2% and greater than 0.3%.

Change #2: Increase in Pool size.

We are also including more validators in our pools.

Currently, there are 13 validators across the pools.

We will be increasing this to 20 validators across 3 pools.

Here’s how:

- Blue Chip validator pool will be increased from 5 to 10 validators.

- Community validator pool will be increased from 5 to 7 validators.

Also, a very important detail:

The community has proposed to include new validators in the pools.

One of those is the @galactic_punks.

They will be on our watchlist.

We will be adding them to the relevant pools as soon as they complete 3 months history and meet our criteria.

Even more exciting news:

Next week, the Small Validators pool will be available.

We'll be adding small validators that have low Voting Power yet showing a good performance history.

This is to encourage decentralization and promote fairness of opportunity.

Selection criteria to be shared soon.

Finally:

Here are some details about the Airdrops Plus pool.

Airdrops Plus is one of the favorites of the community.

We'd like to add more validators to this pool that meet the criteria.

In fact:

We've actually been encouraging several validators to provide airdrops.

At this stage, the 3 incumbent validators are the only ones that provide airdrops.

We are constantly monitoring the ecosystem to add more qualifying validators to the pool.

Stay tuned for more updates!