Hello Repe,
I truly appreciate that you took the time to post an official response from the Marinade team in this thread. It’s good to see some movement — and the introduction of the BidTooLow penalty mechanism is definitely a step in the right direction.
That said, I’d encourage you to scroll back and take another look at the validators I mentioned earlier. Some of them aren’t being penalized at all under your new logic — despite having tiny or even zero bids and still continuing to receive delegation.
So yes, you may have patched one bug… but it seems another one is still alive and well. Please take a serious look.
If I may ask a straightforward question:
Why did this bug go unpatched for 120 epochs?
Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that your team only recently became aware of the issue. But I know for a fact that multiple validators reached out months ago — some of whom underpaid Marinade by up to 1,000 SOL — and even created GitHub issues describing the problem in detail.
So what happened?
- Was the bug reported internally but never escalated to you?
- Or did the team knowingly decide not to fix it?
Honestly, I’m struggling to understand how a protocol that manages over 9 million SOL in TVL could let a flaw like this persist for so long. Whether it’s a communication breakdown or a product decision — neither looks great from the outside.
I hope you can clarify.