Justin Drake proposed lean staking to reduce validator responsibilities to their essentials

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@drakefjustin outlined specific lean initiatives: - Lean staking: Make validator roles simpler - Lean verifiability: Works on low power / bandwidth devices - Lean crypto: Reduce primitives; 1 hash function if possible - Lean assumptions: Prioritize hashes and pq schemes

Furthermore, Drake laid out several near-term proposals under the “lean” banner, including lean staking, which would strip validator duties to the essentials.