Today for most humans is just another day. But historically this day is important because the Genesis of Cosmos Hub happens.

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Almost 4 years ago in a day of Ethereum Genesis, I wrote a post on its bright future. This accelerating future is happening right now.

Current post is not the comparison between Ethereum and Cosmos or Polkadot or other amazing p2p technology. Nor it is an overview of the technology. It is not speculation though. This post will be shorter thus more concise. Let me speak from my heart, and I will give you my personal story and impressions on the 5 years long (almost) silent development of the technology which I believe will be more impactful for the future of web than HTTP and HTML combined.

Story

It happens that I meet amazing humans before they impact the state of the world. The same was with Jae and Brian. I met those guys in Bucharest in February 2017.

Those time I were looking for more efficient consensus alternatives because lighting (not LN) hit my brain one month before: I realize that thanks to IPFS a better Google is finally possible. One piece was missing though: efficient consensus algo. I started a comparison of DPOS based chains as the most performant at that time and finally came to a Tendermint chat with a question on performance for a search engine. Guys in a chat answered me that it seems that 30k-40k tps is achievable under some setting. I was happy because that was clearly enough for PoC. I start to dig, and to the moment I met guys after one month I was already impressed by Tendermint developments not only because of the consensus engine. I saw that guys were thinking deeper.

It was February 22, 2017 when Kostya, me, Jae and Brian spent almost 2 hours on the discussion of the beast.

The resume was that cosmos based search engine is crazy but clean enough, and undoubtedly doable idea.

After the talk I made this selfie: