Open problem

No protocol enumerates serving endpoints

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A wallet that wants an alternative serving endpoint has nothing to ask. No protocol enumerates the endpoints that serve reads, so alternatives spread out of band: curated lists, documentation, social consensus.

This blocks switching in practice. Even a reader who verifies everything they receive can only choose between the endpoints someone told them about.

One candidate direction is an on-chain registry of endpoints. Readers would enumerate alternatives through the chain itself, verified by the same light client that consumes them. See connectivity for the bootstrap caveat.

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