It is Decentralized In Name Only (DINO) if:

  • It has a company behind it
  • Smart contracts with admin keys
  • Smart contracts that let oracles decide their outcome
  • Has rolled back its blockchain
  • Has a really small number of nodes
  • Most projects rely on the same small number of nodes
  • Relies on infrastructure that can easily be switched off e.g. by Amazon or Microsoft
  • Has a committee deciding its monetary policy
  • Can censor transactions or confiscate funds
  • Is backed by centralized assets such as bank deposits or bonds
  • Depends on a centralized or DINO stablecoin to function
  • Regularly changes critical rules such as emission rate and the consensus algorithm