+As noted earlier, governance proposals like [CIP-1694](https://cips.cardano.org/cips/cip1694/) include measures to limit the impact of inactive delegated stake on voting outcomes. Additionally because DRep delegation is a new feature, all previously lost stake is unable to engage. These measures (such as marking inactive dReps) help prevent governance paralysis, but do not address the underlying issue of lost ADA still existing and, in some cases, continuing to accumulate rewards. However, when a stake pool with lost stake retires or shuts down, the lost ADA delegated to it is actually much less of a problem. That ADA effectively becomes undelegated and removed from circulation, meaning it no longer receives staking rewards or participates in governance. While the system currently has no direct way to reclaim or reassign lost ADA, the most persistent issues arise when lost stake remains delegated to active pools or dReps. Indirect mitigations only address symptoms (like governance quorum) rather than the root cause.
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