Alluvial's @liquid_col hit 230k ETH staked and is now the 6th largest LST. Should hit 4th place pretty soon and will then overtake RocketPool to hit 3rd. For a long time they were too early, but now that institutions are coming they've found PMF and are starting to crush!
Each Research Day has one banger talk and this year it's about why tokens and public markets are broken and how to fix them, courtesy of @TheiaResearch. I highly recommend everyone have a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99XsVSN_doQ
*Transaction fees* are what people pay to use the chain. MEV should be retained by the users, protocols, and wallets that generate it instead of being leaked and extracted. REV measures how much people want to use the chain + how much they get their face ripped off when doing so!