Over the years, much of the crypto world has lost track of the importance of asymmetry in decentralization. @ShaulKfir reminds us of the importance. Symmetric distribution means that one change impacts everyone; a burst of traffic impacts everyone; an error impacts everyone. True decentralization requires autonomy, which means decentralized control: different control centers that can ignore each other when they disagree. Canton is asymmetric: by separating ordering, distribution & confirmation from transaction validation, independent subnets can operate on different rules, with different bandwidths and costs, shielded from pressure on other subnets, without any compromise on composability, atomicity or cryptographic consistency proofs.