Shared-state chains work until a scalability threshold forces sovereignty
Comdex Mainnet Launch Party | Panel-1 | The rise of DeFi in the Cosmos Ecosystem (Comdex)
“One of the things that stands out about Cosmos is the sovereignty that we get, unlike other shared-state chains. Shared-state chains like Ethereum and Solana are phenomenal for developing rapidly, but once you reach a certain scalability threshold you certainly need that sovereignty that Cosmos provides.” — 00:06:57
Context: Praising Cosmos’s appchain model in 2022 — a position he substantially reversed in 2025 when announcing Akash would leave its sovereign L1 for a shared-state ecosystem.