Have you seen the recent EOS meetup? https://steemit.com/eos/@eosio/a-recap-london-eos-meetup
Dan says at the end of the presentation that EOS processing speed is faster than the speed of light! I don't know what the really means but man I'm hyped!
I think they are building EOS slowly and steadily.
That certainly be an overstatement:)
well actually you can follow the dev log @dan to check on the progress