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 # :punch: phist :punch:
 
-An implementation of Loom's Proof-of-History.
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+Loom is a new achitecture for a high performance blockchain. Its whitepaper boasts a theoretical
+throughput of 710k transactions per second on a 1 gbps network. The first implementation of the
+whitepaper is happening in the 'loomprotocol/loom' repository. That repo is aggressively moving
+forward, looking to de-risk technical claims as quickly as possible. This repo is quite a bit
+different philosophically. Here we assume the Loom architecture is sound and worthy of building
+a community around. We care a great deal about quality, clarity and short learning curve. We
+avoid the use of `unsafe` Rust and an write tests for *everything*.  Optimizations are only
+added when corresponding benchmarks are also added that demonstrate real performance boots. We
+expect the feature set here will always be a long ways behind the loom repo, but that this is
+an implementation you can take to the bank, literally.
 
 # Developing