The decentralized infrastructure landscape is quietly shifting beneath our feet. For years, independent node operators have faced a glaring asymmetry. While we championed the ideals of a truly distributed web, the reality of running a validator node was shrouded in legal ambiguity. Today, that paradigm is fracturing in the best way possible. Driven by massive NEAR ecosystem momentum - including consecutive Meta Pool Node Studio cohorts pushing the network toward an all-time high of over 370 a...