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.

Those thirsty thots traversing #trading troubled the devs about CEX listings again, shifting the goalposts from "wen mainnet?" to "wen cex?" as one ProxyDiscordIndividual pointed out. Cool guy, RP developer Kane wisely noted that we can now ask them and our wives (as if we're married) the same question: wen cex?

Joe's cat is okay! oh yeah, and RP Main-net launch is on October 6th...