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

Odaily Odaily reported that 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 specialized execution layer geared 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 steep, and the complexity of system address interactions necessitates multiple transactions for cross-asset operations, leading to low efficiency. In most cases, asset swaps are even less efficient than the AMM mechanism.

Furthermore, HyperEVM has long suffered from a "neglected" problem. This may be due to the team's resources being concentrated on core products such as HIP-3, HIP-4, and portfolio margin, 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 to the DeFi Summer style. Otherwise, smart contract innovation may continue to slow down.