Many projects present decentralization as a checkbox: either a protocol is decentralized, or it isn’t. In reality, decentralization develops gradually through how systems are used, governed, and economically aligned over time.
Decentralized exchanges play a critical role in this process because they remove reliance on custodial intermediaries and allow users to interact directly with on-chain liquidity. STONfi contributes to this progression by keeping execution, custody, and settlement fully on-chain, even as activity scales and users trade assets beyond
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