# Strengthen Tokenomics: Cut Validators from 110 to 55 **URL:** \ **Category:** Protocol\ **Tags:** governance, funding, technical\ **Created:** [October 3, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/strengthen-tokenomics-cut-validators-from-110-to-55/12435 "2025-10-03T18:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![LuukDAO](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.celo.org/luukdao/32/6937_2.png) [@LuukDAO](https://forum.celo.org/u/LuukDAO)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/strengthen-tokenomics-cut-validators-from-110-to-55/12435/30 "2025-10-16T14:17:33Z")
@Patrick Love these concrete suggestions, we shared some thoughts about [increasing stCELO usage and impact here](https://forum.celo.org/t/strengthen-tokenomics-accelerate-stcelo/12473). We’ve also made meaningful progress toward veCELO **- Digital Asset Treasury:** I’m actively involved in some Eco / Investment Fund set-ups and keen to start something for Celo in this direction. **- veCELO:** We’ve run some early pilots of this with Support Streams Season 0 and now Support [Streams Season 1](https://www.celopg.eco/programs/supportstreams1), where we use locked stCELO to decide where a portion of CELO / OP incentives are pointed. We could expand this setup to include a ve/time-based lock element and incorporate some mechanisms that allow projects to burn an x amount of CELO and/or provide native-token incentives to attract veCELO votes. **- Burn flex:** Yes, I’ve been closely following the [ETH Community Foundation](https://ethcf.org/), which is built around ETH Burning. They are starting to allocate budget soon, and as soon as they show signs of figuring out a model that works, we’re keen to replicate some of it for Celo through CeloPG. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.celo.org/t/strengthen-tokenomics-cut-validators-from-110-to-55/12435)._