#opg $OPG A small thing caught my attention recently.
I noticed that some node operators seemed more interested in staking discussions than infrastructure discussions.
At first, that felt backwards.
If the network depends on compute, hosting, and verification, shouldn't conversations revolve around performance? Yet whenever incentives changed, activity changed almost immediately. Wallets moved. Delegations shifted. New participants appeared.
The infrastructure stayed the same.
The behavior ...
$OPG made me rethink how I measure decentralization.
For a long time, I focused on validator counts, staking participation, and token distribution. Those things matter, but they don't tell the whole story.
Now I pay more attention to a different question:
Who still has the most influence when important decisions need to be made?
That's what caught my attention with @OpenGradient
A network can have thousands of participants, but if one organization remains the center of everything, decentra...