It's currently a standard Geth node due to storage limitations (a 1 TB disk for both Geth and Lighthouse). I'll bump the storage up next year to 2 TB (or more), so I can run an erigon archive node and thus won't need to prune geth regularly either.
I'm aware, but I don't know if there are any clear-cut solutions. I'm honestly not too knowledgeable on the issues surrounding MEV in the first place, beyond the obvious issues with censorship and the power large node operators wield. Block proposer/builder separation is one step, but it obviously doesn't help with the fundamental issues surrounding MEV [1].
Please make the effort to understand the difference between frontend and backend.
The nice thing about the decentralised exchanges such as Uniswap or -dydx- is that you do not need their websites/ frontends because their smart contracts/ backend is available on the blockchain. Anybody can make a website that interacts with any smart contracts on the blockchain. There are even aggregator websites (e.g. https://app.defisaver.com/).
Do you know any website that aggregates the services of any TradFi banks and brokers?
Backend/frontend? I thought this was a decentralized network. There should just be users with nodes. Backends point to clear points of failure from a disingenuous misleading project
If you made even a passing attempt at understanding this space you would see how wrong you are.
Anyone can interact with a contract directly, you don't need any FE or BE at all.
I can't speak to the specifics of dydx since I am not a user and haven't done my due diligence on them, but with every other dex I have ever interacted with it is entirely possible to use their service entirely from the contract interface.
Its usually the first thing I do to ensure that I can access my funds without any external dependencies.
You are just contradicting the parents comments while trying to claim they aren't being misleading. The exchange when down with aws and they were lying about being decentralised to sell tokens
dYdX is a layer-2 zk-rollup-based exchange that is definitely not decentralized in the sense that e.g. Uniswap is on layer-1. It still, however, inherits the security guarantees of L1 despite not being directly intractable with from L1.
even your L1 is 70% hosted nodes , why not just run an api on a trusted company's servers that verifies your balances using pub/priv keys and signatures
you guys are up for rude awakening when this rube goldberg machine bricks
everything runs on centralized servers, where are the peers in these p2p networks?