Thank you my friend! We’re trying!
on 1: It will be a joint effort with Algorand Technologies. I agree, we need a seamless UX. We’ll get there.
on 2: All fully open-source.
on 3: Still being worked on, but it’s likely, alongside the usual “run a node with a partkey” we’ll also have a contract based solution where people can stake simply by sending their funds trustlessly to a contract, where they’ll earn less of course as someone needs to run the node on their behalf, and we’re aiming for one of the major DeFi venues to offer first class staking as a service, liquid staking.