CEO của Helius, Mert, giải thích về tính phi tập trung và chi phí phối hợp

The Huoxing Finance report states that Mert, CEO of Helius, Solana’s infrastructure development platform, posted on X that decentralization is essentially “coordination without a central authority.” If the cost of coordination approaches zero, then it is effectively centralized; if the cost of coordination is infinitely high, then it cannot technically be called decentralized either, as the system would be unable to function properly. Mert illustrates this perspective through a thought experiment: imagine a highly decentralized blockchain currently existing, with hundreds of thousands of nodes running at home, distributed mining power, and a distributed token supply. He then proposes another extreme assumption— if North Korea can transfer funds from Wallet A to Wallet B within time T, then this is equivalent to the chain being able to simultaneously trigger nuclear weapons in most countries worldwide. Finally, suppose this blockchain successfully freezes the funds in Wallet A through a fork without causing mass casualties. Is this blockchain truly decentralized? Mert argues that although humans are able to coordinate due to the shared incentive of “not dying,” this does not mean the chain is “disorganized.” Decentralization remains fundamentally “coordination without a central authority.”