Lily Liu: "Permissioned Blockchain" is Strangling the Crypto Soul, We Should Reclaim the Native Spirit of Cryptography"

On November 17th, Lily Liu, the Chairperson of the Solana Foundation, made a post on social media, calling for a return of the "crypto world to the cypherpunk spirit." Lily Liu stated, "We are in the 'enterprise chain' era. In this era, those with large balance sheets and ready-made distribution channels can wrap a single sequencer with fancy marketing. At the same time, they rigidly narrate that 'decentralization is actually irrelevant' and claim that this centralization effort 'is helping Layer1 development.' However, everyone knows that this is just a logically contradictory propaganda." At the same time, truly crypto-native application chain infrastructure is being suppressed by corporate giants. Even in times of revenue distress, these projects start to self-hypnotize and believe that the only way out is to transform themselves into an 'enterprise chain.' This is by no means the vision I had when I first read the 'peer-to-peer electronic cash system' whitepaper, and I am sure this is also the common voice of the vast majority of crypto practitioners."