The DeFi Walkaway Test: Can Users Actually Leave?

"The contracts still exist" is a weak test. Users must find positions, construct calls, obtain data, and verify exits without the operator.

I'm building an exit harness for 10+ major DeFi protocols. Each test starts with a historical position and removes the frontend, company API, hosted indexer, relayer, and default RPC one dependency at a time. Public artifacts must find the position and return its assets.

This talk presents the measured results: exit success, recovery time, required infrastructure, and value exposed to each dependency, separating inconvenience from lost agency, and catching immutable contracts that rely on mutable services.

I show real failures and the small repairs that fix them: ABIs, deployment records, permissionless automation, local indexes, fallback interfaces.

Speakers: Diego Siqueira

Track: Permissionless Networks