Agree, if you aren't even trying to be "credibly decentralized" then there is a lot of value to on-chain dispute process that you can engage in to recover funds
Right now we sort of have "worst or both worlds" in that assets can be frozen, but no credible dispute process exists
re: the yETH hack:
at this point I actually really wish Circle/Coinbase would truly lean into something like ERC20-R with an appropriately well fleshed out (non-kangaroo-court) dispute resolution procedure etc.
no one is going to get a court order over $200k worth of cbETH or USDC, yet this can be a meaningful amount to whoever lost it
the asset is totally centralized, crypto broadly speaking is getting "fintech-ized" all over the place anyway
in light of these factors it should be possible to reverse an illicit transaction at relatively low-cost (lower than conventional U.S. court system) and without killing crypto's advertised benefits, but centralized asset issuers still demand court orders and haven't invested into ADR-based reversibility
Even better if it can be automated!
E.G. Circle can freeze a hacker's balance automatically in response to a hack, and then (later on) publish a merkle tree of the balances pre-hack
Then you can go in and prove your membership in that tree, burn it, and have tokens re-issued
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