On April 23rd, the Solana Foundation introduced a new policy to enhance decentralization: for every new validator in its Delegation Program, three will be removed if some validators have been eligible for Solana Foundation mandates on the mainnet for at least 18 months and have pledged less than 1,000 SOLs outside of Solana Foundation mandates. This change is designed to reduce reliance on Foundation mandates, encourage community-backed validators, and maintain a more efficient and decentralized...