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 July 6, 2025
CIP-50 rebirth
- Status: With CIP editors and being formally submitted by IOE to IO Research for further evaluation.
- original CIP-50
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
Sticky Stake / Stake Mobility
- Status: Brainstorming new CIP to improve stake mobility
- CPS
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.