"When you don't have the founder mode, the fire usually dies"
Akash Founder: Why We're Leaving our Sovereign L1 Behind (Akash Alpha)
“The founders of Cosmos [aren’t] active anymore, and when you don’t have the founder mode, the fire usually dies. Very rarely you can see an example — I think the only example I can think of where the founder is not present is probably Satoshi in Bitcoin… You can have the founders retire or go when you have a level of maturity, and Cosmos doesn’t have the level of maturity for the founders to go silent.” — 00:10:44
Context: Why the Cosmos ecosystem stagnated (no growth in members, liquidity, or technical complexity; no roadmap or direction) despite Akash funding shared-security efforts.