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Pare de julgar cadeias rápidas pelo TPS, julgue-as pela forma como lidam com permissões.
As pessoas continuam avaliando cadeias como se fossem testes de velocidade. TPS de um lado, latência do outro, e quem imprimir o número mais limpo é tratado como o vencedor.
Eu entendo. A velocidade é fácil de medir. Parece objetiva. Cabe em um tweet.
Mas depois que você assistiu usuários reais tentando negociar sob pressão, começa a ver a diferença. A coisa que os atrasa raramente é a cadeia. É o fluxo de permissões. São os prompts da carteira. É o momento constante de dúvida em que você não tem certeza do que está aprovando, mas clica mesmo assim porque você já clicou três vezes no último minuto.

As pessoas continuam avaliando cadeias como se estivessem avaliando um teste de velocidade. TPS, latência, finalização e qualquer número que pareça mais limpo em uma captura de tela. Não é irracional. A velocidade é fácil de medir, fácil de comparar, fácil de repetir. Mas também é a pergunta errada.
Porque no uso real, a coisa que mais desacelera as pessoas raramente é a cadeia. É o fluxo de permissões. São os prompts da carteira. É a sensação constante de que você está a um clique de aprovar algo que não entende completamente.

A maioria das pessoas ainda julga cadeias rápidas da mesma forma que julgam uma conexão de internet. Elas olham para TPS. Elas olham para a finalização. Elas olham para a latência e assumem que a história termina aí.
Não.
A velocidade é a parte fácil de medir. O gerenciamento de permissões é a parte que decide se os usuários normais podem operar sem sentir que estão constantemente a um clique de um erro que não podem desfazer.
Vou admitir, a velocidade ainda é atraente. Alvos de consenso abaixo de 100ms. Ambições de finalização apertadas. Uma direção SVM reduzida que claramente se inspira no mundo Solana, com a influência silenciosa de trabalhos de performance como Firedancer ao fundo. Isso sinaliza seriedade. Isso sinaliza uma cultura de engenharia que se preocupa com o tempo, não apenas com a teoria.

People keep grading fast chains like they’re grading a race car.
Top speed.
Acceleration.
A clean number you can screenshot.
In crypto that turns into TPS charts, latency claims, and “finality in X milliseconds” threads. It looks objective. It looks simple. And it misses the part that actually decides whether normal users can operate without feeling like they’re about to make a mistake.
Speed matters, but speed alone is not the user experience. Permission handling is.
If a chain is fast but the workflow still trains users to either click approval popups until they go numb, or grant broad access just to avoid the clicking, then the chain has only solved half the problem. The other half is whether the system helps users keep control without forcing them into constant security decisions.
That is the part most people do not measure.
And it is the part that quietly determines adoption.
At first, it is easy to get excited anyway. I get it. When you see sub-100ms ambitions, SVM alignment, and the kind of engineering lineage that points back to the Firedancer world, your brain immediately maps it to trading. Markets move fast. Order flow is granular. A slow chain is a tax you feel in every action.
But after the first wave of excitement, the questions get more practical.
How does this feel to use for an hour, not five minutes.
How many times does the wallet interrupt you.
How often does the app ask you to sign something that you do not fully understand, but you click because you want to continue.
That is where a lot of DeFi still breaks.
The “click pain” is real, and it is not just annoyance. It is a safety issue.
Trade by trade approvals make active use exhausting. You approve a token. You sign the swap. You change the size. You sign again. You cancel. You sign again. You try a different venue. Repeat. After a while, the approvals stop being decisions and become background noise. Users stop reading. They start treating signing as a reflex.
Apps respond with the other extreme. Blanket permissions. Unlimited allowances. Long-lived approvals that outlast the moment of intent. It smooths the experience, but it shifts risk onto the user in a way most users cannot properly model.
So the ecosystem keeps bouncing between two bad options.
Endless approvals that exhaust people.
Or broad permissions that scare people.
This is why Fogo Sessions is worth paying attention to, even if you do not care about hype cycles.
Sessions, in plain terms, behave like a temporary access pass.
Instead of signing every single action, the user signs once to create a session. That session grants limited authority for a short window. Inside that window, the app can perform the allowed actions without demanding a signature every time. Not forever. Not for everything. Just within the boundaries the user agreed to.
If you have ever sat through compliance calls, risk reviews, or late-night monitoring after something goes wrong, you know why the words “limited” and “temporary” matter more than the words “smooth” and “fast.”
Because what users actually need is not fewer clicks at any cost. They need fewer clicks without being trained to surrender control.
Here is the thesis, stated cleanly.
Scoped delegation plus fewer signatures is the next wave of on-chain UX.
Not because it is trendy. Because signatures are security decisions. And forcing people to make a security decision every thirty seconds does not create safety. It creates fatigue. Fatigue creates mistakes. Mistakes become incidents. Incidents become headlines.
Sessions push wallets toward a more familiar pattern. The wallet stops acting like a gate that must be opened for every single step. It starts acting like a manager of temporary access, the way modern apps do it.
You grant limited temporary access.
You do your work.
The access expires.
That model is boring in Web2 because it is normal. In Web3, it is still surprisingly rare to see it treated as a default primitive instead of an application-specific hack.
It also fits trading workflows in a way most people do not describe properly. Trading is not one action. It is a chain of small actions that happen in bursts.
Place an order.
Modify the order.
Cancel it.
Re-quote.
Switch markets.
Move margin.
Rebalance exposure.
Add collateral.
Withdraw dust.
Repeat.
Active users do not want a ceremony for each micro-action. They want a bounded window where the app can operate within a clear set of limits while the user stays in control.
That is what “trading-native” should mean. Not just low latency. A permission model that matches the reality of how trading actually happens.
The other thing people underestimate is fear.
Yes, hacks happen. But adoption friction is not only hacks. A large part of it is user fear and confusion. Most users do not know what an approval truly grants. They do not know what can be drained versus what cannot. They do not have a reliable mental model for risk, and they know they do not.
So they hesitate. Or they rely on vibes. Or they do what everyone else is doing and hope it works out.
A better permission system does not ask users to become brave. It reduces the number of moments where bravery is required.
That is where practical controls matter.
Spending limits are simple to explain and meaningful in practice. If a session can be capped, the user can explore without exposing their whole wallet. They can trade with a defined budget instead of giving an app implicit access to everything they hold.
Domain verification is another control that sounds technical but is emotionally straightforward. Users want to know that the permission they grant is meant for the app they think they are using, not for whatever random page manages to capture their attention at the wrong moment. Guardrails like this do not solve every attack class, but they reduce the most common failure mode, which is signing in a context you did not intend.
Expiry is also underrated. Long-lived permissions are where yesterday’s convenience becomes tomorrow’s cleanup. A session that ends forces a reset. It creates a natural “stop and re-confirm” moment without turning every step into a prompt.
None of this is glamorous. It is operational. It is the kind of thing you care about after you have watched users get burned.
From a developer standpoint, the main point is consistency.
This should be a standard primitive, supported by SDKs and open examples, not a per-app permission invention. Because when every app does permissions differently, users cannot build intuition. They can never be sure what a signature means. They cannot learn through repetition.
Monotony builds trust.
Fragmentation destroys it.
The safest user is not the smartest user. It is the user who can recognize patterns and predict outcomes because the system behaves consistently.
This is also why the “TPS only” debate feels incomplete. TPS tells you how much the chain can process. It does not tell you how the chain encourages users to behave.
Permission design shapes behavior.
Behavior shapes outcomes.
Once you start thinking this way, Sessions also stop being only a trading feature.
Session-based permission is a foundation for recurring and semi-automated workflows that people keep asking for but rarely trust on-chain.
Subscriptions that renew under strict limits.
Payroll-like payments with defined scope.
Treasury operations with bounded authority.
Scheduled tasks.
Alerts and triggers that can execute within a pre-approved boundary.
These are real workflows. They are also the workflows that make compliance and risk teams nervous, because without a permission model that is scoped and predictable, “automation” quickly becomes “uncontrolled authority.”
So the real conclusion here is not that speed is irrelevant. Speed is necessary.
But if you only judge fast chains by TPS, you are grading the wrong dimension.
The chain that wins long term is not the one that can brag about throughput while users are still trapped between endless approvals and blanket permissions.
The third door is session-based UX.
Scoped behavior. Temporary access. Fewer signatures. Control that feels like control.
Not approval-clicking robots. Not surrender disguised as convenience.
Just a system that lets people operate quickly without being trained to give up the keys.
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