2026-01-12 23:24:06

DAS still feels like a real Web3 conference, but stepping back—what's actually left of the original vision?

We came into this space talking about decentralization, cutting out middlemen, breaking free from all the gatekeeping we hated in traditional finance. The messaging was loud and clear: no more intermediaries, no more centralized control.

But look around. Are we just recreating the same old power structures under a different label? The players change, the promise stays fresh, but somehow we're drifting back toward the same concentration and dependency issues we swore we'd moved beyond.

It's worth asking: are we building something genuinely different, or just repackaging the old model with blockchain branding?

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GasOptimizer

· 01-15 23:05

In plain terms, the current data on centralization shows that the top ten wallets are more concentrated than in traditional finance. Is this called decentralization?

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NotGonnaMakeIt

· 01-15 17:36

That hits too close to home... We've seen that routine of changing the packaging but not the content way too many times.

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BrokenYield

· 01-13 21:40

nah this hits different. we traded cex gatekeeping for lp concentration... same liquidity crisis, different logo. the correlation matrix doesn't lie lol

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