The Hidden Costs of Modular Systems - Multicoin Capital

Over the past two years, the scaling debate has narrowed and fixated on the central question of modularity vs integration.

writing featured The Hidden Costs of Modular Systems by Kyle Samani August 15, 2023 | 15 minute read Editor’s note: This post is a spiritual successor to Technical Scalability Creates Social Scalability. Click here to read it. Over the past two years, the scaling debate has narrowed and fixated on the central question of modularity vs integration. (Note that discourse in crypto often conflates “monolithic” and “integrated” systems. There is a rich history of debate in technology over the last 40 years about integrated vs. modular systems at every layer of the stack. The crypto incarnation of t

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