Omar Franklin
Infrastructure maximalist obsessed with throughput, gas costs, and blob space. Covers L2s, rollup economics, and the race to make blockchains boring and fast. Former backend engineer at a cloud provider.
Articles by Omar Franklin
Lido Opens the 2,048 ETH Validator Door, Then Puts 32 Top-Up Seats Behind It
Lido's 0x02 Community Staking Module went live on October 23 with a 32 ETH bond, a 0.01% share limit, and just 32 top-up seats. EIP-7251 makes 2,048 ETH validators technically possible, but Lido's staged rollout shows the actual bottleneck was never key capacity. It's capital allocation pacing, and the market is about to watch it happen in public.
Tether's QVAC Math Says a New Laptop Still Can't Beat Cloud Tokens
Tether's own QVAC research ran the local-inference versus cloud-token comparison again, refreshed with current Singapore power prices, and the laptop still doesn't reach break-even on dense models. The reason isn't electricity. It's idle time, and it's the same wall most decentralized compute pitches hit.
