Myth: Decentralized perpetuals must sacrifice speed and liquidity — the Hyperliquid counterexample

Many traders assume decentralized perpetuals are always slower, more opaque, or worse for high-frequency strategies than centralized venues. That neat dichotomy — CEX = speed, DEX = safety — is a useful shorthand but increasingly misleading. Hyperliquid attempts to collapse that trade-off by designing a custom Layer‑1 optimized around trading primitives: sub‑second finality, a fully […]