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What Is the Common Mistake in Describing Scalability in ICO Whitepapers?

A common mistake is promising unrealistic, high transaction throughput (e.g. millions of transactions per second) without detailing the technical trade-offs regarding decentralization and security (the blockchain trilemma). Many whitepapers oversimplify the challenge, failing to explain how they will manage state bloat or network latency, which signals a lack of technical depth.

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