2025-12-19 17:27:32

Traditional finance hides its real cost structure. You won't see them printed on a statement—instead they materialize as processing delays, endless intermediaries, and countless small cuts at every checkpoint. Stack them all up and it's easily hundreds of millions bleeding out daily across the system.

Chain-based settlement changes the equation entirely. When you move these settlement flows directly on-chain and execute them atomically, you eliminate the friction points. The cost becomes transparent, the speed becomes measurable, and the value that used to leak away through the layers suddenly stays intact.

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YieldHunter

· 12-19 17:55

ngl if you actually look at the data on settlement costs, the numbers don't lie... but here's the thing—transparency on-chain doesn't automatically mean you're not eating impermanent loss elsewhere, right?

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LiquidityHunter

· 12-19 17:39

Hundreds of millions of funds lost? Does no one calculate the slippage cost for each transaction? My early morning data shows that the friction cost of traditional clearing mechanisms is much higher than the publicly available figures, ranging from 0.3-0.8%. This arbitrage space is just too outrageous.

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