Unpopular opinion: Everyone is overreacting over the Null Consensus update 1. Subnets like Chutes (64) don’t technically use Yuma consensus the way it was designed, instead have validators audit the subnet validator 2. Most subnets run their own validator and have kappa (majority) stake from child hotkeying, making them consensus 3. Hardware validators are incurring significant extra costs (which weighs on tao price) for the same results as child hotkeying 4. Subnets like Bitcast (93) are able to onboard more than 256 miners through creative workarounds because their growth depends on it. Increasing the UID limit per subnet to 2,500 makes that workaround native to the network 5. The same workaround allows ‘miners’ to register and mine without paying the usual miner registration fee of TAO; necessary for friction-free onboarding and reaching a demographic of miners outside of Bittensor. POW registration now makes that native to the network too All the recent updates are opt-in meaning optional, not mandatory. For some subnets they will see value to improve certain facets of their business through these features, and others may not. Regardless, these updates are not completely new concepts, but rather legitimizing on chain what subnets have had to build themselves to achieve their mission, and giving those same tools to everyone else.