Net Watch
I wonder (aloud) if the people who are participating in this thread are ideally positioned to offer a sort of distributed early warning system, keeping the community informed about odd network behaviors as they arise.
People who are running this infrastructure could set up monitors that send alerts when interesting things come up.
For example @zecevangelist surfaced a potential security issue here, if operators were monitoring they could answer questions like this one about the size of the UTXO set quickly (and continuously) and provide multiple perspectives.