Guardians of Growth Update: Expanding Resilience & Transparency
As part of our ongoing commitment to strengthen the Guardians of Growth Staking Program, the Subspace Foundation is making several important adjustments to improve resilience, fairness, and transparency.
Two New Operators for Resilience
To add greater resilience to the network, we are introducing two new operators in different regions with different infrastructure providers. This geographic and provider mix reduces reliance on any single environment and helps ensure the network remains secure and reliable as staking participation grows.
Guardians of Growth Vault
The 5,000,000 AI3 dedicated to this program has been transferred to a dedicated account:
All operator stake and rewards managed by the Foundation will be cycled back into this Vault, ensuring the community can transparently track the program’s dedicated funds throughout its lifecycle.
Why a Ramp-Up?
We’ve had some questions about why rewards are ramping up gradually. The answer is simple: this approach gives us space to identify and fix teething issues in code and infrastructure. For example, on September 1st the Operator Reward Distributor lost connection to its RPC node and paused submissions for a few hours. These early challenges are exactly why we are starting gradually - to ensure the system is stable before reaching full cadence.
Balancing Operator Rewards
We recognize that new operators will naturally start with lower stake and lower rewards. To prevent a skewed distribution:
- The Foundation is providing each new operator with an initial 500,000 AI3 nominated stake.
- All stake and earnings from these nominations will be cycled back into the Guardians of Growth Vault.
- We are increasing both the frequency and amount of payouts from the Reward Distributor to smooth distribution across all operators during this early stage.
These changes are designed to create a more balanced and fair rewards environment as the operator set expands.
Conclusion
The Guardians of Growth program is about more than boosting rewards - it’s about creating a resilient, transparent, and community-aligned foundation for staking on Autonomys.
With additional operators, a dedicated Vault for transparency, and adjustments to keep rewards balanced, we’re building confidence for nominators and operators alike as the network matures.
Stay tuned for further updates as the program continues to evolve.