Everyone's chasing speed, but nobody's asking the right question—at what cost?

Slow blockchains actually hit different. While everyone hypes high-TPS chains as the next big thing, they're basically just larping as Layer 2 solutions. Same scalability tricks, different marketing.

Here's the thing: real money doesn't chase speed. Watch where actual wealth flows—it gravitates toward security and decentralization, not processing power. The slow lane is where sovereignty lives.

The obsession with TPS is quietly killing what made blockchain worth building in the first place. Every optimization for velocity is a tradeoff in independence. You gain throughput, you lose control. You gain scalability, you lose the whole point.

Consensus doesn't scale linearly. Sovereignty isn't a feature you can just patch in later. When you design for speed first, you're already choosing whose interests come second.