Optimum CEO and Co-Founder Muriel Medard highlights the growing importance of latency in decentralized networks, drawing parallels to traditional finance where speed directly impacts profitability. As onchain trading volumes increase, low-latency infrastructure is becoming a critical economic variable for competitive advantage in DeFi markets. The challenge lies in achieving TradFi-level execution speeds across distributed networks where co-location strategies used in centralized exchanges are not applicable. Medard positions Optimum as addressing this gap by optimizing transaction routing and settlement times on blockchain infrastructure.