Cost, speed, failure· 9 min read
Adding up every cost layer: gas, bridge fees, the cost of locking up liquidity in a channel, currency conversion, and the fee to turn it into cash locally. The last one gets left out of most comparisons.
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The $200 everyone divides by is a fixed benchmark, not a measured average: the real US to Mexico average is $488. Working the throughput question properly, across four demand levels and an honest market share, lands nearer 14 to 33 transactions per second than the headline 143.
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An argument for measuring the slowest 1% (P99) instead of the average. A recipient who has been waiting three days does not care what the average was that week, and averages make a system look better than it feels.
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We design failure experiments for each setup, taking nodes offline and slowing bridges down on purpose, then look at whether transfers roll back or funds get stuck somewhere in the middle.
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