Ethereum

Cross-posting a thought on staking from the other app:

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Perhaps we should recognize that 32 ETH is much more of a barrier for stakers than bandwidth reqs, and temporarily do a trade where we up the bandwidth reqs a bit and in exchange drop the staking deposit minimum to eg. 16 or 24 ETH.

It's net-good for both staking accessibility and scale. Then once we figure out peerdas, bandwidth reqs go back down, and once we figure out orbit SSF, the deposit minimum can drop to 1 ETH.

Counterpoint: at 32 ETH, one validator makes ~$3k a year = only very slightly more than the zero-labor option of holding stETH/rpETH.

The limiting factor isn't stake--it's the complexity and toil of running a validator. Make it painless to validate and many more will do it!

Real World Ethereum 🌎 
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it doesn't make a lo of sense when you consider what's required:
- Large upfront capital investment
- Hardware costs
- Energy costs
- Connectivity costs
- Ensuring validator software runs smoothly

Many pain points to solve for

Building products onchain /thefalsenine /flexclub 🌐

#1 is fine. For validating to be  economical you need to be running at least several anyway. 2 and 3 are comparatively small.

#4 could be easily improved by uncapping stake per validator.

It’s #5 that gets you.