This thread was a space for Rocket Pool believers to share why they were still here—what they believed in about Rocket Pool and RPL, what it felt like to hold through the lows, and how they could stay positive and proactive. It offered support, reflection, and encouragement, grounded in shared values around decentralization and Ethereum staking. The focus stayed on honest experiences, not blame or mockery—just voices from those still building and believing. Participants received a POAP.

@SquishChaos joined us in the #trading channel to talk about Rocket Pool, its Mainnet release, and where Rocket Pool is headed moving forward.

With the impending mainnet launch for Rocket Pool, the EthStaker crew is hosting a livestream on the basics of the security model of being a Rocketpool node operator. We'll start with a short description of the attack surfaces, and progress to a walkthrough of setting up a VPS server as a staking machine with the most essential security precautions. The tutorial will use a macbook client with a Ubuntu server hosted at a VPS provider. 'Mentor' will be presenting during this livestream as he wrote most of the security documentation for Rocket Pool. If you'd like to download the slides you can do so here, in addition to setting a calendar reminder: Event Slides + Calendar Reminder https://ethstaker.cc/events/securing-your-rocket-pool-node-livestream/

A spontaneous G7 Summit took place at channel #trading of Rocketpool discord including some of the most prominent figures such as: Azalea, thomasg, zwit, LookingForOwls, jcrtp, Pieter, Bawcey, gator, stcention and more. The discussion involved themes such as climate change, deforestation, nuclear energy, aneutronic fusion, chemical warfare, CRISPR terrorism etc.

This POAP marks the day RPL whale 0x16 from Struck Capital was defeated by RPL buyers! GreyWizard had a sighting of a Dumpback Whale. Dazer said the whale had a Premature Capitulation. deetoo noticed it Struck Out Looking. Ken called it a Failure Before Launch. Sezgin simply noted, NGMI. hanniabu was there when it Struck Out Last Inning.