Paused mid-flow on the TBV testnet after Babylon $BABY #baby @BabylonLabs_io dropped the July 31 founders numbers.
More than 2,000 vaults created by then, two months and change since the May 26 launch. Research cut the peg-in from roughly three hours to about ninety minutes. Sounds like progress. What actually sits with me is how the default path still feels like watching Bitcoin confirmations while the real coordination (signatures, ACKs) happens off to the side. The marketing leans hard on “native, trustless, self-custody.” In practice the first long stretch is just waiting.
Tried a small one myself earlier. Got to the verified stage fine, but the clock felt longer than the new number suggests once you are the one staring at it. Makes me wonder how many of those 2,000 cleared the full cycle on the first attempt versus the ones that only finished because someone already knew where the slow parts hide.
Three years out, does the default user stop noticing the latency, or does the product just get better at soft-padding it?
More than 2,000 vaults created by then, two months and change since the May 26 launch. Research cut the peg-in from roughly three hours to about ninety minutes. Sounds like progress. What actually sits with me is how the default path still feels like watching Bitcoin confirmations while the real coordination (signatures, ACKs) happens off to the side. The marketing leans hard on “native, trustless, self-custody.” In practice the first long stretch is just waiting.
Tried a small one myself earlier. Got to the verified stage fine, but the clock felt longer than the new number suggests once you are the one staring at it. Makes me wonder how many of those 2,000 cleared the full cycle on the first attempt versus the ones that only finished because someone already knew where the slow parts hide.
Three years out, does the default user stop noticing the latency, or does the product just get better at soft-padding it?