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In the Interchain, the Only Viable Business Model is to Make Something Other Chains Want

In the Interchain, the Only Viable Business Model is to Make Something Other Chains Want

By Polkachu Team | 2022-10-20

In an IBC-connected Interchain world, the only viable business model is to make something that other chains want. A big advantage of the Interchain is that every chain can specialize...

Validator's Dilemma

Validator's Dilemma

By Polkachu Team | 2022-08-20

Validator's Dilemma: In a perfectly competitive market where validators do not collude, individual validators choose the cheapest and most performant data center providers. As a result, the network is worse...

The Kujira Playbook

The Kujira Playbook

By Polkachu Team | 2022-08-16

While many crypto thought leaders come up with innovative tokenomics, the Kujira Playbook does the opposite: Take away distraction from inflation, align investor time horizon, and ship products that users...

Polkachu's Infrastructure Support for the Cosmos Ecosystem

Polkachu's Infrastructure Support for the Cosmos Ecosystem

By Polkachu Team | 2022-05-25

Polkachu is a trusted validators on proof-of-stake blockchains. We are also a major infrastructure provider for these projects, especially in the Cosmos Ecosystem.

We are the Peg, mfker

We are the Peg, mfker

By Polkachu Team | 2022-05-11

In a period of technological paradigm shift (we believe we are in one), we like to keep our perspective by revisiting Chris Dixon's classic Strong and weak technologies: "Weak technologies...

IBC Will Not Make Cosmos a Hub; That's Great News

IBC Will Not Make Cosmos a Hub; That's Great News

By Polkachu Team | 2022-05-04

Should Cosmos Hub be a hub to offer a stable base layer for the whole ecosystem, or should it live on the cutting edge of innovation with the rest of...

Holy Trinity: A System Approach to Tendermint-Based Chain Validation

Holy Trinity: A System Approach to Tendermint-Based Chain Validation

By Polkachu Team | 2022-04-14

Now we are actively validating on close to 20 Tendermint-based chains, we feel that it is a good time to summarize our system approach to Tendermint-based chain validation. For one...

Change Vote to "No With Veto" on Juno Prop 16

Change Vote to "No With Veto" on Juno Prop 16

By Polkachu Team | 2022-03-14

Change Vote to "No With Veto" on Juno Prop 16

Substrate vs. Cosmos SDK from a Validator Perspective

Substrate vs. Cosmos SDK from a Validator Perspective

By Polkachu Team | 2022-03-11

It is always interesting to compare Cosmos SDK and Substrate. Both are giants in the land of crypto, each with thriving ecosystems of devs and users. We Polkachu have been...