# February 2025: New Validator Proposals
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These proposals were successful and applied to Chiliz Chain on February 20th, 2025.
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Welcome, Chiliz Chain community!
2025 opens with a set of two governance proposals, aiming to further enhance the decentralization of Chiliz Chain.
## Purpose of the proposal
The following proposals aim to further decentralize the chain by increasing the active set of block producing validators while also introducing a new validator to be approved by the rest of the validators.
Adding a new validator and increasing the maximum number of validators strengthen the network's resilience and security.
Read our blog article about it:
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## Proposal descriptions
### Proposal 1: Activate Validator #13
Adds a validator. By having more validators, we enhance the decentralization and network security of Chiliz Chain.
| **Proposal ID** | 114084939794612586762305501180504152496987477204935989506986797406640135161363 |
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| **Voting period** | **Deadline**: Thursday 20th Feb \~ 10:00am CET |
| **Proposer Address** | [0xf299AfC34ec0B9dCAF868914288d735149d6306f](https://chiliscan.com/address/0xf299AfC34ec0B9dCAF868914288d735149d6306f) |
| **Transaction Hash** | [0xdf8a6da25f1baece28989641b1c85621c0d011fa2a5ce44aeddc6be431ebb210](https://chiliscan.com/tx/0xdf8a6da25f1baece28989641b1c85621c0d011fa2a5ce44aeddc6be431ebb210) |
| **Block Hash** | [0x34348d6d2e37e46f1c3e1c17f7ce8ebcd23b28dbaec67b8636107d0f7555e69b](https://chiliscan.com/block/0x34348d6d2e37e46f1c3e1c17f7ce8ebcd23b28dbaec67b8636107d0f7555e69b) |
#### Voting result for Proposal 1
> For: 82.19% - Against: 0%
The Chiliz team applied the decision accordingly on Thursday 20th February, 2025.
### Proposal 2: Increasing the number of main active validators
Increases the maximum number of main validators from **12 to 13**. Expanding the validator set allows for greater participation and further decentralizes the network.\
It also updates the jailing threshold to reflect the slashing thresholds for 13 validators instead of 12: this way, the [validator penalty mechanisms](https://docs.chiliz.com/learn/about-validators/about-validator-slashing) are still fair & balanced for all validators.
| **Proposal ID** | 33064040471993898207632508759912768990551631137099612083774527902946969498915 |
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| **Voting period** | **Deadline**: Thursday 20th Feb \~ 10:00am CET |
| **Proposer Address** | [0xf299AfC34ec0B9dCAF868914288d735149d6306f](https://chiliscan.com/address/0xf299AfC34ec0B9dCAF868914288d735149d6306f) |
| **Transaction Hash** | [0x68174a61a08541dcb842770174de05a745fd44afd69307e48756207fec2d59b6](https://chiliscan.com/tx/0x68174a61a08541dcb842770174de05a745fd44afd69307e48756207fec2d59b6) |
| **Block Hash** | [0xefdae5a73ef8263666fe089859f1d026eb9e288e5da8ebaf0091f85c635a174c](https://chiliscan.com/block/0xefdae5a73ef8263666fe089859f1d026eb9e288e5da8ebaf0091f85c635a174c) |
#### Voting result for Proposal 2
> For: 82.19% - Against: 0%
The Chiliz team applied the decision accordingly on Thursday 20th February, 2025.
## Deadline for Voting
Validators should vote before **Thursday 20th Feb \~ 10:00am CET**.
You can get all the details on each proposal on the Chiliz Chain Governance dApp:
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Validators participation is essential to ensure that these proposals are evaluated and implemented effectively, for the sake of the improvement of Chiliz Chain.
Thank you!