“At first, there was Bitcoin, out of the entropy soup of the greater All. Then, there was Ethereum, which was created in the likeness of Bitcoin, but made Turing complete.

Among these were Tendermint and Cosmos to engineer robust PoS and IBC. Then came Gno upon Cosmos and there spring forth Gnoland, simulated by the Gnomes of the Greater Resistance.”

The quote above, derived directly from the gno repository, encapsulates the historical background behind Gno.land’s creation. Bitcoin has achieved decentralization of value, Ethereum has achieved decentralization of systems, and Cosmos has achieved interoperability of decentralized systems. Each generation has brought significant improvements to the blockchain space, making it a friendlier environment for both users and developers.

The birth of the Tendermint and IBC has enabled robusticity of consensus between untrusted parties and the simplicity of creating independent blockchains that are fully customizable while being interoperable by nature. Today, a significant number of Top 50 blockchains by market capitalization are built on Cosmos SDK and Tendermint. It is clear that the Cosmos Ecosystem is flourishing and the multichain future envisioned by Cosmos is turning into reality.

However, the set of ideas that serve as the pillars of the Cosmos Ecosystem’s architecture is slowly drifting away from its initial philosophy: Hub Minimalism. The founders of the Cosmos Hub believed that the functions of the hub should be as few as possible, with main reasons being: 1) preventing non-cross chain transactions from flooding the network, 2) keeping the functionality of zones and hubs separate, and 3) simplifying the hub to boost security (the recent halt of Juno Network validates this argument).