The Cosmos model failed: sovereignty before product-market fit
The Truth About Decentralized AI and the Future of Compute (TEACHMEDEFI)
“I think the Cosmos model in general has failed — this is coming from someone who’s been in the space for a long time, Akash being one of the first Cosmos chains. The model where it failed is sovereignty before product market fit. It should be flipped… You don’t go build your own data center when you’re shipping an app.” — 00:29:37
Context: Explaining the “shared security migration” off Akash’s own L1 — 18 chains reached out; an 18-month Cosmos SDK upgrade delivered “zero customer features”; validator costs were forecast to balloon.