🧱 Complex systems scale builders. Simple systems scale users.
Modular stacks like
$TIA are architecturally elegant. Execution here, data there, settlement somewhere else. For builders, this flexibility is powerful. For users, it’s mostly invisible and often irrelevant.
$TON takes the opposite approach. It’s vertically integrated, opinionated, and optimized around end-to-end flow rather than composability purity. The trade-off is less freedom at the margins, but far less friction at the core.
That difference shows up in behavior. On modular ecosystems, DeFi is something users learn