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Obviously No One Cares About Decentralization people who focus on decentralization as a feature, eg "traders clearly don't care about decentralization", don't understand consumer motivations as it relates to DeFi's value offering. it shows you don't really grok what users are looking for. obviously no one cares about decentralization. shit, I don't even care about it. all that that is, is an *engineering* question. you know who cares about how things are engineered? engineers. what users care about is permissionless access and no censorship. those are the traits decentralization is in service of. people care about the traits, not how the traits are derived. if our centralized chains/apps currently offer these traits, then yeah, who cares. best of both worlds! but see, you won't get to keep offering that, being a centralized database provider and all. that means you own the database, and you can control what happens on it. that means you are a regular-ass company providing a TradFi service. there is no DeFi here because there is no "De". better believe one day you will need to KYC, AML, and will eventually be liable for what goes down on your company ledger (what's the statute of limitations on this stuff?). just like a bank. just like a broker. you want to be TradFi infra with Pepe memes, you will get treated like TradFi infra by regulators. and deservedly so. stop asking and focusing on if anyone cares about how the chain derives consensus. it's patently clear regular users don't, and it's not interesting to point that out. what we care about are the traits of open access and censorship; so long as those traits are there, the users just want cheap and fast. BUT, when you are forced to start KYC'ing, to start reverting transactions, and are held responsible for what happens on your company ledger, then you better believe those users will start caring... and you will too. lawmakers are going to wake up to the fact that you can rollback state, push invalid roots, freeze your bridge, and all the other things that a bank can do to stop illicit behaviors. with great centralization comes great responsibility, and liability... > "why'd you choose to allow fraud and theft to happen on your company ledger that you unilaterally control? would we tolerate any other financial service knowingly permitting such illicit transactions...?" a good lawyer will one day ask these things in a courtroom. you won't decentralize because it's fun, but because the burden of liability that centralization brings will be too great. and users will finally start to care when their open access goes away. do you want to be held responsible for fraud and hacks? no? guess what you're going to have to do... continued:




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1/ With a revitalized fervor for DeFi since the US elections coinciding with the imminent launch of HYPE, we at Felix are excited to share more about our motivation for building on the Hyperliquid L1. To put it shortly, we believe Hyperliquid L1 will vertically integrate all of the user patterns that today are spread across the likes of Ethereum, Binance, and Solana. Written in collaboration with @hyperactive_cap.


