The last few weeks I've been researching liquid staking....and there are some big opportunities I joined Meta Pool as an Ambassador last month. They have been the OG liquid staking solution on Near since I joined back in Jan 2022. Actually @meta-pool-official.near was the first Defi project that I interacted with on Near where I learned how to stake Near and receive stNear that I could then use on Ref To learn more about the industry and liquid staking itself I have been poring over the research forum on Lido Finance, the 2bln MC liquid staking market leader on Eth. One element about the community that I noticed in both Rocketpool and Lido Finance is that the group of validators play a significant part in the community. They are the ones most knowledgeable about the tech, industry and ecosystem related to staking. It's fascinating to see the proposals that are raised, discussed and voted on that have significant positive repercussions for the ecosystems they touch. I've read the proposals on bridging their stEth to L2s such as Optimism and Arbitrum who then had a rush of Defi projects to launch, due in part to the incoming liquidity that liquid staking brings. The Shanghai upgrade on Eth is set for March/April. This will allow around 30bUSD worth of staked Eth to become 'unlocked' where early stakers had to lock up an amount until the upgrade. Some will sell but a significant portion will likely choose to liquid stake (more likely given they were happy to lock up their Eth for that long!) This will be a significant amount that will be available to be used in whatever DeFi ecosystems it can be bridged to. The sudden influx of liquidity is hugely beneficial for an ecosystem with users flooding in to take advantage of the high yields and other opportunities that arise. I'm calling on all validators on Near to drop in to the Meta Pool discord over the next few weeks so we can see how we can start to think what it would be like to be a project like RP or Lido. As the OGs of the staking community you'll play an important part in the stakeholders (no pun intended) in the project. Meta Pool is launching their liquid staking solution on Eth in the next few months. Given that they have created a quality product on Near, it is run by a passionate and dedicated team, and it is launching where there is significant liquidity.... This all tells me that there is significant likelihood the project will grow over the next few months as people stake their Eth with Meta Pool and utilise the staked Eth around the different L2 ecosystems - including Aurora of course. Cheers and happy St.Patricks day! Hopefully there'll be green everywhere tomorrow (and on saturday with Ireland vs England in the rugby - LFGGGG!!)