Job Description
The 4 biggest blockchain strengths are also its weakness
Permissionless nature leads tofragmentation of meaning
Decentralization leads totoo many standards
Immutability leads to exponential data + query infrastructurecomplexity
Neutrality means that no one isaccountable for interpretations
Blockchain data is public. It is not usable at institutional scale. Despite being open, blockchain data is fragmented, hard to interpret, and painful to maintain. Even a simple question like “Who are the largest Ethereum token holders over time?” can require running nodes, ingesting full chain history, decoding contracts, cleaning edge cases, and writing complex SQL.
Blockchains are optimized for writes, not reads.
They are built for consensus and execution, not searchability, standardization, or financial inter...