PANews, June 20 – A controversy has erupted within the Hyperliquid community over the positioning of HyperEVM, with critics arguing that HyperEVM was not designed as a general-purpose Ethereum execution environment, but rather as a dedicated execution layer focused on composable interaction with Hypercore. Its core design should rely on corewriter and precompiled contracts rather than being used as a general-purpose L1. However, developers currently face a steep learning curve, and complex system address interactions require multiple transactions for cross-asset operations, resulting in low efficiency. In most cases, asset swaps are not even as efficient as AMM mechanisms.

Furthermore, HyperEVM has long suffered from being "neglected," possibly because the team's resources have been concentrated on core products such as HIP-3, HIP-4, and portfolio margin, leading to insufficient investment in ecosystem development. The community suggests that to boost HyperEVM ecosystem activity, developer tools need to be improved, the corewriter mechanism optimized, and more on-chain experimental applications akin to the DeFi Summer style incentivized; otherwise, smart contract innovation may continue to slow down.