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Protocols that survive because no one needs to understand them
Why delegated complexity and not the endless education of the user defines the DeFi systems that withstand the test of time.
For a long time, DeFi assumed that the maturity of the ecosystem would come when users understood every layer of the system they were using. Extensive whitepapers, explanatory threads, and increasingly complex dashboards attempted to solve a poorly framed problem: shifting the burden of understanding from the design to the user.
This fourth installment of the series on the architecture of trust in DeFi proposes a counterintuitive but increasingly evident idea: the systems that survive are not the ones that require understanding, but those that function correctly even when they are not understood.
For a long time, DeFi assumed that the maturity of the ecosystem would come when users understood every layer of the system they were using. Extensive whitepapers, explanatory threads, and increasingly complex dashboards attempted to solve a poorly framed problem: shifting the burden of understanding from the design to the user.
This fourth installment of the series on the architecture of trust in DeFi proposes a counterintuitive but increasingly evident idea: the systems that survive are not the ones that require understanding, but those that function correctly even when they are not understood.
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