Balancing UX and Decentralization: When Does Abstraction Go Too Far?

Name: Balancing UX and Decentralization: When Does Abstraction Go Too Far?
Duration: 10 min 3 s
Description: GregTheGreek examines the tension between user experience and decentralization at Devcon 7, asking when abstraction layers meant to smooth over blockchain complexity start to quietly reintroduce centralization or trust assumptions. The talk considers where the industry's push for frictionless UX risks trading away the properties that made the underlying system worth using in the first place.

Devcon 7 · 14 Nov 2024 · 10:03

GregTheGreek examines the tension between user experience and decentralization at Devcon 7, asking when abstraction layers meant to smooth over blockchain complexity start to quietly reintroduce centralization or trust assumptions. The talk considers where the industry's push for frictionless UX risks trading away the properties that made the underlying system worth using in the first place.

Speakers

GregTheGreek

Topics

Developers
Design & UX

From Devcon 7, hosted by Ethereum Foundation.