# 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:** ![alex\_Verda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@alex\_Verda](https://forum.celo.org/u/alex_Verda)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/reduce-elected-validator-set-from-110-to-55/12732/29 "2025-12-12T19:10:59Z")

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What if this proposal becomes a two-part process from 110→55→0 validators?

1. Start with reduction to 55 for expediency— my understanding from cLabs is this would be very easy to implement.

2. In 3 months (after holidays) assuming no significant unforeseen security vulnerabilities or issues resulting from reducing to 55, we go to 0 validators. This way we don’t drop a bomb on cLabs right around the holidays and cLabs has clear line of sight on what is approved for the future without the needing to negotiate in 2 months or submit a new governance proposal.

My takeaway from the forum posts above and conversations with Luuk is that there is much more consensus around going to 0 than going to 55, which I’m onboard with if it’s done in this staged approach.

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