The Cardano Incentives Working Group is currently working on 5 initiatives. All the initiatives are related and can (or should) work together. Please also see our RSS tool to see how these changes will affect the network.
Current initiatives status
Updated August 28, 2025
CIP-50 rebirth
- Status: CIP editors merged as official CIP on July 22, 2025.
- CIP-50
Sticky Stake / Lost Stake
- CPS accepted as CPS-22
- Link: CPS-0022? | Lost Stake by Cerkoryn · Pull Request #1060 · cardano-foundation/CIPs
- CIP submitted to editors
- Link: CIP-???? | Time-Bound Delegation with Dynamic Rewards by Cerkoryn · Pull Request #1077 · cardano-foundation/CIPs
minPoolCost
- Status: IO has begun Analysis and comparison of previous minPoolCost CIPs. Gov Proposal to lower minPoolCost was posted to govtools
- minPoolCost proposal
- IO minPoolCost CIP Analysis and Comparison
Reverting slot battle changes back from B hash to L hash
- Status: Additional research by Alexander Esgen has been posted. Steps forward are being evaluated by the Ledger team and other working groups.
- Alexander Esgen’s evaluation
Increasing K to 1,000
- Status: Gov action currently being drafted. Evaluating if other changes like CIP-50 /minPoolCost should come first or if they should be done together. New article posted to website on rewards misconception.
- Misconception: if K is raised to 1,000 pool rewards and SPO revenue will be cut in half
Suggestions to Intersect Product Committee Roadmap
- Status: SPO Incentive WG Suggestions were merged to Roadmap on July 22, 2025
- Ideas merged to Road Map