Welcome to The Factory.

We’re bringing one thesis per episode from thought leaders willing to put their name on it. We pair this op-ed with a live conversation, then open an opinion market on Fact Machine so the audience can weigh in. Opinions published, debated, quantified.

Episode one asks a question that sounds simple and isn’t: what does institutional staking actually require and why aren’t most providers ready for it?

Our guest is Wyatt Clancy, VP of GlobalStake, a vertically integrated bare-metal staking provider. They own their servers, run their own validators across  ...