# 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:

{% embed url="<https://www.chiliz.com/cointelegraph-joins-chiliz-chain-as-validator/>" %}

## 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](/learn/about-validators/about-validator-slashing.md) 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:

{% embed url="<https://governance.chilizchain.com/governance>" %}

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!


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