Question About Dfinity No Longer Accepting Node Operators

[diegop]

@Shmigamie

First, what is the logic of capping the amount of nodes that can join the ICP network ?

Good question.

The TLDR:

1. Dfinity does not “accept” nodes. The NNS DAO does.

2. Dfinity (the foundation) decided to vote to reject more node providers because each node provider means more ICP being minted. Dfinity believes that it has optimum decentralization now given the usage. So it will vote down proposals to add more.

3. Of course dfinity has a minority voting power vote so if the community wanted to override dfinity, it could.

You can find more detailed explanation on why Dfinity internal assessment on why it has enough nodes here:

IC Topology - target topology reached

Last year, the community has voted on an IC target topology with a maximum number of node machines, as well as on an optimization model to validate candidate node machines against this IC target topology. The IC target topology has been reached by December of 23, see for more information this forum post. This means that the IC network currently does not require any additional node machines in order to reach its decentralization targets. Therefore, DFINITY will not vote to adopt any proposals for…