Latency as a Shield

🔷Ryan Sean Adams highlights that Ethereum’s strength does not lie in maximizing TPS but in preserving high latency as a defense against centralization. Fast chains inevitably trigger a race for hardware and geographic advantage, empowering data centers, amplifying MEV extraction, and creating opaque infrastructure that undermines the principles of an open network.

🔷Ethereum deliberately maintains a slower base layer to avoid these pitfalls. Rollups can operate at higher speeds, but they remain anchored to a secure foundation backed by thousands of validators enforcing fair rules. This architecture provides resilience against cartelization and reinforces decentralization as a structural safeguard against corruption.