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

Odaily Planet Daily News The Hyperliquid community seems to have erupted over a dispute regarding HyperEVM's positioning, arguing that HyperEVM is not designed as a general-purpose Ethereum execution environment, but rather as a dedicated execution layer more inclined towards composable interaction with Hypercore. Its core design should rely on corewrite and precompiled contracts, rather than being used as a general-purpose L1. However, currently, the learning threshold for developers is high, and the complexity of system address interactions leads to multiple transactions for cross-asset operations, resulting in low efficiency. In most cases, asset swaps are even less efficient than the AMM mechanism.

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