# Reduce Elected Validator set from 110 to 55

**URL:** <https://forum.celo.org/t/reduce-elected-validator-set-from-110-to-55/12732>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Tags:** validators\
**Created:** [December 5, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/reduce-elected-validator-set-from-110-to-55/12732 "2025-12-05T18:15:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![marek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.celo.org/marek/32/5752_2.png) [@marek](https://forum.celo.org/u/marek)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/reduce-elected-validator-set-from-110-to-55/12732/27 "2025-12-11T22:28:42Z")

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If we lower the validator set to zero, we would need to do a number of things:

- Modify the staking smart contracts to permit voting for zero validators, while still keeping staking rewards for people that lock CELO and still letting such people participate in governance
- Potentially ripping out all the election smart contract logic to lower our smart contract surface area
- Auditing these changes
- Re-do the staking web page on Mondo so people can stake and earn rewards without having to pick a validator to vote for

These are all things that can be done fairly easily of course, but would take around one to two months, primarily because audits add a lot of latency to any smart contract changes.

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