{"cip_id":"0120","title":"Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives","status":"Proposed","counts":{"sibling_cips":1,"forum_posts":0,"forum_topics":0,"mailing_messages":14,"mailing_threads":3,"github_items":4,"blog_posts":0,"youtube_videos":0,"total":19},"sibling_cips":[{"id":"PR-268","cip_number":null,"title":"Holdings-Denominated Capacity Rights","status":"Draft","reason":"mentioned-in-content"}],"forum_posts":[],"forum_topics":[],"mailing_messages":[{"id":"cip-discuss-857","thread_id":"121390753","thread_title":"Draft CIP: Holdings-Denominated Capacity Rights","group_slug":"cip-discuss","author":"ds","sent_at":"2026-09-23T11:23:37.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-discuss/message/857","subject":"Draft CIP: Holdings-Denominated Capacity Rights","snippet":"… P-0098 reward cap, the CIP-0084 price recommendation and round-based minting. It is in tension with CIP-0120 on validator funding, and the draft says so. Draft: https://github.com/dark-sole/cips/tree/draft-to …","cip_id_match":false},{"id":"cip-discuss-833","thread_id":"120502087","thread_title":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","group_slug":"cip-discuss","author":"David Richards","sent_at":"2026-09-01T11:22:35.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-discuss/message/833","subject":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","snippet":"Hi all, Following feedback on CIP-0120, the proposed increase to the validator dynamic minting cap (from 20% to 30% during high-burn perio …","cip_id_match":true},{"id":"cip-vote-765","thread_id":"120579457","thread_title":"CIP-0120: Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives","group_slug":"cip-vote","author":"Chris Matturri","sent_at":"2026-08-04T00:21:07.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-vote/message/765","subject":"CIP-0120: Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives","snippet":"Directionally we like the concept of this CIP and incentivizing decentralization of validators hosting different applications on the network- but agree with DA & Cumberland that it is premature to tak","cip_id_match":true},{"id":"cip-vote-764","thread_id":"120579457","thread_title":"CIP-0120: Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives","group_slug":"cip-vote","author":"Chris Zuehlke","sent_at":"2026-08-03T22:46:32.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-vote/message/764","subject":"CIP-0120: Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives","snippet":"Cumberland votes not in favor at the moment. While we are open to considering some of the ideas presented in the CIP, we think it represents some significant changes that merit additional discussion. ","cip_id_match":true},{"id":"cip-vote-763","thread_id":"120579457","thread_title":"CIP-0120: Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives","group_slug":"cip-vote","author":"Eric Saraniecki","sent_at":"2026-08-03T21:12:53.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-vote/message/763","subject":"CIP-0120: Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives","snippet":"…  Martin via lists.sync.global wrote: Hello Super Validator Node Owners, Please find ready for vote: CIP-0120: Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives The CIP text as merged in GitH …","cip_id_match":true},{"id":"cip-vote-762","thread_id":"120579457","thread_title":"CIP-0120: Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives","group_slug":"cip-vote","author":"Amanda Martin","sent_at":"2026-08-03T16:08:31.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-vote/message/762","subject":"CIP-0120: Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives","snippet":"Hello Super Validator Node Owners, Please find ready for vote: CIP-0120: Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives The CIP text as merged in GitH …","cip_id_match":true},{"id":"cip-discuss-827","thread_id":"120502087","thread_title":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","group_slug":"cip-discuss","author":"David Richards","sent_at":"2026-07-31T08:05:00.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-discuss/message/827","subject":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","snippet":"Hey Alex, In response to your comment about traffic fees, as per CIP-0104 here confirmations don't cost the confirming validators cost traffic anymore - the traffic cost is reimbursed to the confirmin","cip_id_match":true},{"id":"cip-discuss-826","thread_id":"120502087","thread_title":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","group_slug":"cip-discuss","author":"David Richards","sent_at":"2026-07-31T08:02:53.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-discuss/message/826","subject":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","snippet":"Hey Anthony, Thanks for your review and questions. Answers below 1. Is it possible to provide some plain-text examples of validator incentives in the current implementation vs. this future proposed im","cip_id_match":true},{"id":"cip-discuss-824","thread_id":"120502087","thread_title":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","group_slug":"cip-discuss","author":"Alex Chen","sent_at":"2026-07-29T22:47:16.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-discuss/message/824","subject":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","snippet":"Hi David, team, thanks for sending this into discuss - a lot of time and thought clearly went into it. One thing I'd like to understand more is the reasoning behind further incentivizing / allocating ","cip_id_match":true},{"id":"cip-discuss-822","thread_id":"120502087","thread_title":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","group_slug":"cip-discuss","author":"Erick Ho","sent_at":"2026-07-29T17:52:51.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-discuss/message/822","subject":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","snippet":"Send supports this proposal as well. This proposal ties incentives to the strong, yet overlooked, Canton primitive of networks of networks and decentralization. - Erick Ho Send Foundation","cip_id_match":true},{"id":"cip-discuss-821","thread_id":"120502087","thread_title":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","group_slug":"cip-discuss","author":"Anthony Merriman","sent_at":"2026-07-29T17:25:30.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-discuss/message/821","subject":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","snippet":"Hi all - this is really interesting! Thanks for all of your effort putting it together. I'm posting some questions below mainly because the CIP itself is quite technical and I'm guessing we aren't the","cip_id_match":true},{"id":"cip-discuss-820","thread_id":"120502087","thread_title":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","group_slug":"cip-discuss","author":"Yiannis Varelas","sent_at":"2026-07-29T15:46:23.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-discuss/message/820","subject":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","snippet":"David and team - thanks for working on this. I'm echoing Kinga's comment on network resilience and decentralization. Five North has worked with DA and MPCH and already implemented 2-3 co-validation in","cip_id_match":false},{"id":"cip-discuss-819","thread_id":"120502087","thread_title":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","group_slug":"cip-discuss","author":"Kinga Bosse","sent_at":"2026-07-29T15:19:10.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-discuss/message/819","subject":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","snippet":"Thank you David. This is a very important step towards ensuring network resilience. MPCH is happy to support. From: cip-discuss@... on behalf of David Richards via lists.sync.global Date: Wednesday, J","cip_id_match":false},{"id":"cip-discuss-818","thread_id":"120502087","thread_title":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","group_slug":"cip-discuss","author":"David Richards","sent_at":"2026-07-29T13:15:23.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-discuss/message/818","subject":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","snippet":"Dear community, Please find attached a proposal for making three primary improvements to the validator rewards; adjust the calculation of validator rewards to be based on actual traffic usage rather t","cip_id_match":false}],"mailing_threads":[{"id":"120502087","title":"CIP-0120 - Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives - David Richards, Simon Meier and Bernhard Elsner","group_slug":"cip-discuss","message_count":0,"last_post_at":"2026-09-01T11:22:35.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-discuss/topic/cip_0120_traffic_based/120502087"},{"id":"120579457","title":"CIP-0120: Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives","group_slug":"cip-vote","message_count":0,"last_post_at":"2026-08-04T00:21:07.000Z","url":"https://lists.sync.global/g/cip-vote/topic/cip_0120_traffic_based/120579457"}],"github_items":[{"id":"canton-network/splice#7560","type":"pr","repo":"canton-network/splice","number":7560,"title":"Explore daml for for CIP 120 proposal via a RewardKind type","state":"open","author":"adetokunbo","created_at":"2026-09-30T22:27:33.000Z","url":"https://github.com/canton-network/splice/pull/7560","snippet":"### Pull Request Checklist #### Cluster Testing - [ ] If a cluster test is required, comment `/cluster_test` on this PR to request it, and ping someone with access to the DA-internal system to approve"},{"id":"canton-network/splice#7465","type":"pr","repo":"canton-network/splice","number":7465,"title":"Explore daml implementation for CIP-120 proposal","state":"open","author":"adetokunbo","created_at":"2026-09-25T00:46:55.000Z","url":"https://github.com/canton-network/splice/pull/7465","snippet":"### Pull Request Checklist #### Cluster Testing - [ ] If a cluster test is required, comment `/cluster_test` on this PR to request it, and ping someone with access to the DA-internal system to approve"},{"id":"canton-foundation/cips#248","type":"pr","repo":"canton-foundation/cips","number":248,"title":"CIP-0120: Remove Adjusting Validator Caps for High-Burn Environments section","state":"open","author":"davidrichards-da","created_at":"2026-09-01T11:17:01.000Z","url":"https://github.com/canton-foundation/cips/pull/248","snippet":"This PR removes the \"Adjusting Validator Caps for High-Burn Environments\" section from CIP-0120 (Traffic-Based Validator Rewards and Confirming Validator Incentives). 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