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

Odaily Planet Daily News The Hyperliquid community has reportedly erupted in 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 more inclined towards combined interaction with Hypercore. Its core design should rely on corewriter and precompiled contracts, rather than serving as a general-purpose L1. However, the current 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 exchange is even less efficient than the AMM mechanism.

Furthermore, HyperEVM has long suffered from a "neglected" issue, possibly because team resources are concentrated on core products such as HIP-3, HIP-4, and portfolio margin, leading to insufficient investment in ecosystem development. The community suggests that to boost the vitality 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.