I recently commented:
"Cardano’s interoperability features have been carefully curated and refined through a rigorous, transparent, and collaborative technical review, ensuring robustness and security."
Some friends asked me why I made that statement. This would be a somewhat more detailed explanation:
Cardano has evolved from a centralized and rigorous development model to a more open, agile, and diverse structure that seeks to accelerate innovation without sacrificing security. Since its inception, Cardano has been characterized by a formal and academic approach that prioritized security and stability, but also slowed the adoption of new features and limited community participation. This method, while effective in maintaining high standards, generated a slow process and isolated many developers interested in contributing.
To overcome these limitations, Cardano is adopting a model of multiple independent teams and clients, such as Aiken, Midgard, and Pragma, which bring different ideas and technical approaches. This strategy fosters constructive competition and the coexistence of diverse solutions, expanding flexibility for new protocols and use cases. However, as Charles Hoskinson noted, this diversity also implies greater complexity and can slow down the delivery of new functionalities due to the high entropy of the system.
The development process of Cardano has been characterized by careful technical curation, where each interoperability feature has been refined through rigorous, open, and collaborative reviews. This has strengthened the robustness and security of the ecosystem, ensuring that innovation does not compromise the integrity of the network.