HyperEVM criticized for positioning bias and poor developer experience, with core applications still confined to a few scenarios

Odaily reported that the Hyperliquid community seems to be embroiled in a controversy over the positioning of HyperEVM, arguing that HyperEVM is not designed as a general-purpose Ethereum execution environment, but rather as a specialized execution layer that prioritizes combinatorial interaction with Hypercore. Its core design relies on the corewriter and precompiled contracts, rather than serving as a general-purpose L1. However, the current learning curve for developers is steep, and the complex interaction with system addresses leads to inefficiencies, requiring multiple transactions for cross-asset operations. In most cases, asset swapping is even less efficient than AMM-based mechanisms.

Furthermore, HyperEVM has long faced a "neglected" issue, possibly because the team’s resources are concentrated on core products like HIP-3, HIP-4, and portfolio margin, resulting in insufficient investment in ecosystem development. The community suggests that to boost the activity of the HyperEVM ecosystem, it is necessary to improve developer tools, optimize the corewriter mechanism, and incentivize more on-chain experimental applications reminiscent of the DeFi Summer era. Otherwise, smart contract innovation may continue to slow down.