ATOMs were mostly premined and ICO’ed (which is same thing) and thus depend entirely on trust in 1… | by The Professor | Medium

Of Lords and ATOMs

Charlie Morris

1 min readMay 1, 2019

ATOMs were mostly premined and ICO’ed (which is same thing) and thus depend entirely on trust in 1 party and Cosmos has literally 0 to do with decentralization. This is just a centralized database with extra steps.

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