Web3’s Sovereignty Focus Clashes with User Convenience

The crypto community’s ideological commitment to self-custody wallets may be hindering mainstream adoption. While these tools promise financial sovereignty, their complexity—lost access, seed phrase management, and unintuitive interfaces—often drives users away.

Decentralization purists champion control as empowerment, but the average user prioritizes frictionless transactions. The tension between ideological purity and practical usability threatens Web3’s ambition to onboard the next billion participants. "Financial freedom means little if the tools feel like cryptographic puzzles," observes the author.

Market leaders must reconcile these competing values. Projects that solve the usability paradox without compromising Core blockchain principles could capture the next wave of adoption. The solution lies not in abandoning sovereignty, but in making it accessible.