Uprooting dYdX From Ethereum to Explore the Cosmos

But for Juliano, Cosmos, which is like a blockchain for blockchains, offered the most compelling vision for scalability. “We need more on the order of 1,000-plus transactions per second,” he said. Cosmos offered Juliano the customizability he needed to finally achieve his vision for dYdX, which has evolved over the past half-decade. This includes building a protocol–specific mempool, to store unfinalized txns, and finding the perfect number of validators, to balance execution and decentralization.