Regulation Unpacked

Abstract

Rules make fun better! Said no one ever, other than that one cousin who’s weirdly competitive but pretends they know how to relax (you know who you are). Look, we know regulations are painful, and everyone would rather pass them off to their legal team or compliance head to read this stuff. But it’s what we’ve all got to know when operating in financial services. And given the risks around the convergence of traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi), that’s doubly important. TradFi has long been constrained (sometimes for the better) by regulation; DeFi… not so much until recently. That’s the benefit DeFi gets from being a greenfield innovation space. But regulators are closely monitoring the activities of DeFi players and TradFi operators entering the space. If you want to take advantage of the technological benefits of tokenization, stablecoins, prediction markets, and more, you need to soak this stuff up.