Ray S., founder of aPriori, says latency and lack of fair sequencing remain the most critical infrastructure bottlenecks preventing decentralized finance from matching the execution speeds of traditional finance.
In an interview with Benzinga, discussing high-frequency trading on Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) L2s and alternative L1s, Ray also stressed that decentralization — specifically censorship resistance — is an underrated but essential factor keeping large TradFi players from deploying capital on-chain.
“Without censorship resistance, TradFi firms face AML and compliance risks that prevent them from meaningfully participating on-chain,” said Ray.
He pointed to emerging chains like Monad as promising candidates to close the execution gap, citing their ability to scale performance without compromising on decentralization.
Ray’s comments come as aPriori launched Swapr, a high-performance decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator designed to bring HFT-grade tooling to DeFi.
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