Here's the core issue nobody talks about:

Race for speed comes with a brutal cost.

When chains prioritize throughput—churning out blocks faster and faster—they're essentially drowning in data they can't possibly maintain. The math doesn't work.

So what do they do? Aggressive pruning. Strip the historical records.

And with that goes years of verifiable transaction history—the kind of on-chain reputation and financial records that should be permanent.

Ten, fifteen, twenty years of data? Gone.

You're left with a chain that's fast on paper but functionally amnesic. No depth. No accountability trail.

Speed without history isn't scaling—it's just moving the bottleneck elsewhere.