CAP draft proposes disabling Stellar's inflation mechanism, which was designed to fund ecosystem projects but now primarily generates validator load through inflation pool payouts.
A CAP draft from OrbitLens proposes disabling Stellar's inflation mechanism, originally designed to fund ecosystem projects but now primarily generating validator load and network congestion. Users prefer inflation pools over directing inflation to projects, creating inefficiency. The proposal requires changes to Stellar Core: making Inflation operations return INFLATION_NOT_TIME, preventing SetOptions from changing inflationDest, and discarding transaction fees instead of pooling them. The approach maintains backward compatibility and allows future re-enabling if needed.
