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Our current data infrastructure threatens DeFi’s future

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Opinion: Maxim Legg, Founder and CEO of Pangeaa

Blockchain is facing a crisis of its creation. While we celebrate the theoretical transaction speeds and the signing of decentralization, our data infrastructure is still rooted in firmness in the seventies technology. If the time of downloading 20 seconds would calm the Web2 application, then why do we settle for that in Web3?

With 53 % of users who give up websites just three seconds after the download time, our industry acceptance of these delays represents an existential threat to adoption.

Slow transactions are not just a problem with user experience. High performance chains like Aptos are able to thousands of transactions per second. However, we are trying to access their data through “Frankstein Fenery” – the systems paved together from tools such as postgres and Kafka that have never been designed for the unique Blockchain demands.

The hidden cost of technical debts

The consequences extend beyond the simple delay. Current indexing solutions force development teams to choose an impossible: either building a custom infrastructure (consumes up to 90 % of development resources) or accepting severe restrictions on existing tools. This creates a performance paradox: the more faster than the Blockchains, the more clearly than the data of the data infrastructure.

In realistic circumstances, when the market maker needs to implement Crosschain arbitration trade, they are mainly fighting against their infrastructure, as well as competition against other traders. Each millimeter represents the contract that was spent on the contract or awaiting state updates of lost opportunities and lost revenues.

This is no longer theoretically. The main trade companies are currently hundreds of contracts to maintain competitive reaction times. The infrastructure bottleneck becomes a decisive failure point when the market requires the peak performance.