Yeah, it's easy enough to spin up a DB on RDS, but using the blockchain does offload the need to secure the database (and securing infrastructure in general, at

Yeah, it's easy enough to spin up a DB on RDS, but using the blockchain does offload the need to secure the database (and securing infrastructure in general, at least where managing the token is concerned). There's also no dependency or trust on hexel per se once the coin is created. They can disappear, but the contract/token lives on. Definitely upside for using Ether, but comes at a price in transaction time and money.