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It is easier to build centralized on top of decentralized than the other way around. This is the whole idea.

People trend to centralization but it doesn’t mean: let’s give up on decentralization and just give one company, or a select few, the keys to the entire kingdom.

besides, as uximproves it will be easy to just use the blockchain directly. like using an on-chain long or short position, or staking some value, rather than only doing it on a centralized exchange.




but why? what advantage is there to using the slowest ledger ever created?


Zk rollups are about as fast as visa network - and recursive zk snarks can scale further if needed. The benefit is that they inherit the security of the main network - users can withdraw tokens from them trustlessly, and at no point can the rollup owner steal user funds or block them from withdrawal.

For financial services like lending and swaps this is great and avoids some of the CeFi and CEX problems we are seeing. For other apps like art sales, public groups, and ENS domain name aliases, it allows ownership of assets to be held non custodially rather than a single company’s servers and records.


Not having a single country control the currency that underpins all global markets, for starters.




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