The cross-chain duo Polkadot and Cosmos are really competing to see who can underperform more—what a mess from the get-go. This clearly shows that the vision and effort of the founders together determine a project's ceiling. Projects where the founders cash out some tokens, make some money, and then retire to enjoy life—stay away from those ASAP. There's only one Satoshi Nakamoto, and what he invented is digital gold. For application-based projects, premature decentralization is just the beginning of the end.