# DeFi's stack isn't decentralized — "just own it"

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-06-16
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** DeFi Summit - Conference Day 1 - June 15th (Tuesday) (Dcentral Con)
- **Watch at:** 06:26:34 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3b3aoKEnEA&t=23194s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-06-16-defi-s-stack-isn-t-decentralized-just-own-it-xyuk/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "DeFi's stack isn't decentralized — "just own it"," DeFi Summit - Conference Day 1 - June 15th (Tuesday) (Dcentral Con), 16 Jun 2021, 06:26:34. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3b3aoKEnEA&t=23194s

## Quote — verbatim

> Graph is essentially indexing nodes running on servers. Where are these servers running? Amazon, right?... Where is that DNS running? Probably Amazon or probably Cloudflare. Right? You're not decentralized. You're not. Just own it.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His "cognitive dissonance we have in crypto, especially DeFi, is adorable" riff [06:25:17], walking through Uniswap's architecture layer by layer (Ethereum contracts aside, the indexer, web UI, and DNS are centralized).