Edit validation message

dabstep_benchmark/content.py

@@ -50,13 +50,13 @@ VALIDATION_GUIDELINES = """
 
 All submissions are initially added to the **Unvalidated Leaderboard**. The Adyen/Hugging Face team will attempt, with the participation of the respective submission team, to validate any entries that rank within the top 10.
 
-**Validation** confirms that a submission's results were achieved using a novel approach involving data analysis agents. To support validation, participants must provide clear evidence of their methodology. This can be done in one of the following ways:
+**Validation** confirms that a submission's results were achieved using a novel approach involving data analysis agents. 
 
-- **Preferred:** Share a research paper or blog post along with the source code to enable full reproducibility.
-- Submit a complete dataset that includes **reasoning traces** demonstrating how the results were produced.
-- Provide access to an **API** that the Adyen/Hugging Face team can use to independently validate and reproduce results.
+### Notice Regarding Validations
 
-Our goal with **DABStep** is to foster rapid progress and collaboration in the open research community. We strongly encourage participants to share their work and open-source their code whenever possible.
+**Validation requests are closed.** With DABStep-v2 launching in the coming weeks, we are no longer accepting new validation requests. The Validated Leaderboard is now closed to new entries; previously validated submissions remain as-is.
 
-Once validated, submissions will be featured and showcased on the **Validated Leaderboard**, including annotations indicating the validation method used (e.g., `traces`, `code`, `API`).
+The Unvalidated Leaderboard remains open — you can still submit and receive a score.
+
+Thank you to everyone who has contributed to DABStep so far. We're excited for the next phase of this benchmark and will share more details on v2 soon.
 """