Ryan

Man, it's raining FUD this weekend, and I'm not sure about the origin. I guess it's that time of the cycle where everyone freaks out about Cardano's potential and roadmap, so they throw a wave of FUD at us. With respect to World Mobile, the goals of their project require the construction of a global scale, heterogeneous protocol that handles complex hardware that is literally flying in the air, licensed spectrum, user driven network growth, and future proofing the quantum reality we are headed towards. No current system in the entire blockchain ecosystem is capable or has technology to resolve a project at this scale involving billions of users. That's why World Mobile is building it Cardano's roadmap intersects in a very important way with a strong focus on identity, partnerchains, and our unique programming model involving eutxo. These, among other concerns like governance, are building blocks for a partnerchain to scale. We noticed a repeated misunderstanding among some in the community that a partnerchain is apparently NOT Cardano. It's beyond my understanding since in the beginning in 2016 Why Cardano mentions Cardano CL. I guess everyone forgot about the idea that hypercomplex projects like WMC need the freedom to have unique protocols, including variations in consensus, ledger rules, network design, and transaction semantics. This is the same reality for Midnight, any DApp offering infrastructure as a service, and for concepts like decentralized social networks. The point of partnerchains is to provide a framework to do this while being secured by Cardano and enjoying the remarkably solid infrastructure that has been running non-stop for 2300+ days 24/7. The second point is to provide a launchpad for a service to be sold to the entire block chain industry. Again, repeated thousands of times since the beginning, we said interoperability is a pillar of a third generation blockchain. Even if you're in the numbers go up crowd, cross chain transactions are always good for network value. WMC is trying to connect the unconnencted. Not just the Cardano unconnected and screw the rest of the industry. Every human should be connected by a decentralized network with equal and fair rules. The point of partnerchains is to provide a model for how to do this as we are demonstrating with Midnight. While the roadmap has never varied, the frameworks and core infrastructure are new for this paradigm and will require time to mature as we are seeing with the Midnight DevNet growing. We at IOG look forward to working with World Mobile to help them achieve their mission and to ensure Cardano continues to be part of their story. It's an audacious mission, but @WorldMobileTeam and their leader Micky have the skills, integrity, and vision to achieve it.