According to @LexSokolin, open, permissionless, decentralized protocols cannot be sued, jailed, or shut down, resulting in liveness, safety, and censorship resistance that differentiate on-chain infrastructure from centralized intermediaries, source: @LexSokolin on X, Sep 5, 2025. For trading, this highlights lower single-point-of-failure and enforcement shutdown risks when routing orders, providing liquidity, or settling collateral on decentralized protocols, source: @LexSokolin on X, Sep 5, 2025. Traders can incorporate these attributes into venue selection, counterparty risk management, and execution routing in DeFi to mitigate censorship and uptime disruptions during market stress, source: @LexSokolin on X, Sep 5, 2025.