brypto

The "onchain" narrative is a bit weird to me because it's like flexing about being "onAWS" or "oncloud"

A chain is only one part of your tech stack. In fact, having to compose everything onchain is an anti-pattern that emerged because light client support sucks

Offchain is more expressive, safe, and cost efficient

Also “chain” has negative connotations. “Onchain” feels too close to “in chains” which is the opposite feeling this technology should evoke.

It should be freeing, not chaining.

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I think we overestimate how cool "onchain" is to normal folks

To your point, they may equate chains with shackles

And that would be accurate too, writing Solidity does feel like BDSM