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by ralph84 1313 days ago
Because on-chain transactions are expensive and exchanges offer cheap off-chain transactions. If you could transact on-chain as cheaply as you can move money between a checking and savings account of course people would do that.
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> Because on-chain transactions are expensive

For what chain? As far as I can tell, this is only true for ETH, and you can mitigate this by switching to a true L2, although not many of them are up to par yet.