HyperEVM criticized for positioning bias and poor developer experience, core applications remain limited to a few scenarios

Odaily Planet Daily News The Hyperliquid community appears to have sparked a controversy over the positioning of HyperEVM, arguing that HyperEVM is not designed as a general-purpose Ethereum execution environment, but rather as a dedicated execution layer biased towards composable interactions with Hypercore. Its core design should rely on corewriter and precompiled contracts, rather than being used as a general-purpose L1. However, the current learning curve for developers is high, and the complexity of interacting with system addresses leads to inefficiencies, requiring multiple transactions for cross-asset operations. In most cases, asset swaps are not even as efficient as the AMM mechanism.

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