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Morning Edition · Wednesday, July 1, 2026Published at 6:31 AM EDT · New York
A Paper Confronts the Gap Between Decentralization Claims and Measurement
Researchers propose rethinking collaborative trust after measurement studies keep finding a shortage of real decentralization in systems that market themselves as decentralized.
A preprint circulated through the Ethereum Research forum addresses a persistent problem in the industry, the distance between what systems claim about decentralization and what can be measured. The authors note that measurement studies hav…
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