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Created: 2025-07-18 12:21:29 UTC

In a recent @HouseofZK Radio episode, @michael_hibachi, Co-founder of @hibachi_xyz, explained the 'decentralized exchange paradox'.

With Web3 came a widespread assumption: that trustless trading requires running the entire exchange onchain. AMMs, RFQ platforms, and onchain order books all follow this model - using the blockchain as the execution environment to ensure transparency and verifiability.

But this creates a fundamental trade-off. Blockchains are optimized for trust, not performance. So when you move every part of the exchange onchain, you inherit high latency, high cost, and limited throughput - the opposite of what users expect from real-time markets.

This is the paradox Michael lays out: decentralization and transparency come at the cost of efficiency and UX - unless you rethink the architecture entirely.

Watch the full episode to hear how Hibachi uses ZK to resolve this trade-off and create a new kind of decentralized exchange:

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**Related Topics**
[blockchain](/topic/blockchain)
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[web3](/topic/web3)
[decentralized](/topic/decentralized)

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