Even Adam Langley doesn't think that large service providers should roll out Pond, presumably because Langley is serious about cryptography and understands that systems like this can take years to iron out and aren't ready for deployment simply because somebody wrote them up.

Axolotl is Trevor Perrin's protocol; it doesn't belong to TextSecure. However: TextSecure procured a pretty significant block of Trevor Perrin's attention to help review and improve their cryptography.

TextSecure is also, as I understand it, significantly older than Pond.