DeFi

AMMs:
- better UI/UX
- largest trading volume
- available everywhere
- actually decentralized
- nicely composable
- crypto native
- not wintermute

why do you think CLOBs are still better?

haardik.dev | Founder @learnweb3 | lead instructor /uniswaphooks | building @openfarcaster

Afaik most AMMs aren't "actually decentralised"

Most of the AMMs are powered by centralised APIs that cache and alter or "normalise" the onchain data.

Their front-ends aren't realtime nor standalone.

There's almost no difference between such products and CEXes except for the smart contract powered settlement/database.

This trend is taking off under the decentralisation flag which is at least inaccurate and at most a lie to the end users.

I'm talking about APIs feeding apps in DeFi. When we have a centralized piece of software, we should not call ourselves decentralized.

It's not about hard/easy, it's about projects not doing their job. If it was that easy, we wouldn't have this conversation, right? 😉

Are you talking about offchain routing? Finding a path to route your trade? 

I don’t think that makes it centralized - you can build your own router and it’s not *that* hard to do if you really want to