# kaal:claim:3606663-035

**Claim.** The tradeoff between transaction approval speed and immutability has the potential to undermine the DeFi infrastructure in the long run.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- consensus based decentralized ledgers supporting DeFi

**Source quote.**

> The trade-off between transaction approval speed and immutability has the potential to undermine the DeFi infrastructure in the long run.

**From.** Kaal, *Digital Asset Market Evolution* (2020), d) DeFi Infrastructure Case Study, page 72

**Cite as.** Kaal, Digital Asset Market Evolution (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3606663

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `d1d4a15a293b715bb6a5a32e689f59c3a1587915039ba9a1cf4eeb8ee2a1e57c` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202020%20-%20Digital%20Asset%20Market%20Evolution.pdf

**Failure mode.** speed versus immutability tradeoff  (family: scalability-and-throughput-limit)

**Topics.** defi, consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** defi, immutability, throughput, consensus, infrastructure

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