What Makes a Crypto Project Truly Decentralized?

Most projects call themselves decentralized — but very few actually are.

True decentralization requires:

• Distributed nodes

• Open-source code

• No single admin control

• Community governance

• Fair token distribution

A project isn’t decentralized just because it has a token or a DAO.

Real decentralization means the network survives even if the core team disappears.

If a project can be shut down by one group, it is not decentralized — no matter what the marketing says.