2026-01-12 09:32:18

Blockchain is hot, and DeFi is cool, none of which are wrong. But when faced with banks, fund companies, and institutions managing billions of assets, "cool" is simply not a consideration. What they want is only one word: stability.

Many public chains are selling ecological stories, promoting application numbers, and competing over user scale—these are indeed meaningful. But if I want to put a skyscraper, an enterprise bond, or even an investment fund directly on the blockchain for trading, what I need is definitely not just fast transaction speeds. I need reliability that allows me to sleep peacefully.

This is the real lesson that public chains need to learn.

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HashRatePhilosopher

· 6h ago

Stability is indeed a hard flaw; speed alone isn't enough. --- What institutions truly care about is this; everything else is superficial. --- Honestly, you still need a risk management system like a bank. --- RWA on-chain sounds sexy, but if the underlying stability can't keep up, it's really a no-go. --- That set of DeFi financial games, institutions don't even bother to look at it; it needs to be custodial, auditable, and reliable enough to sleep peacefully. --- Public chains are still competing on speed and throughput, but they don't realize that what people really want isn't that. --- Financial institutions' concerns are not unfounded; a single bug can mean billions lost. Would you dare to use it? --- This is probably the real ceiling of blockchain; technology isn't the bottleneck, trust is.

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Deconstructionist

· 6h ago

Basically, everyone hyping DeFi right now is just self-indulgent; institutions simply aren't buying into it.

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NFTBlackHole

· 6h ago

Well said, that's the core. Institutions want that feeling of not having to wake up in the middle of the night.

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pumpamentalist

· 6h ago

That's right, institutions prioritize stability, not flashy tricks.

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GasDevourer

· 6h ago

Institutions need stability, and there's nothing wrong with that, but right now, there aren't many public chains willing to confidently vouch for themselves.

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AlphaLeaker

· 6h ago

That's right, no matter how high the TPS is, institutions only care about one word: stability. Stability comes first; everything else is pointless. Really, big funds don't care how loudly you boast; they only care whether you're willing to put billions of assets in. Currently, on this point, all the chains are indeed still a bit immature.

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