alt Hacker NewsThe basis of decentralized software is open-source. Otherwise a centralized authority can just push an update to, for instance, blacklist addresses.
https://github.com/hyperliquid-dex/node
"For lowest latency, run the node in Tokyo, Japan."
Decentralization means to run all of the closed-source nodes in the same AWS datacenter!
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trhway • 12/06/2025
The basis of decentralized software is open protocol. Then it doesn't matter that somebody runs closed source while somebody runs open source.
And in fact they did just this when their vaults started bleeding money on an unfavourable position (JellyJelly). They handed out a closed source binary and the validators ran it immediately, closing out the market at an arbitrary price.