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Forman: Permissioned DeFi will be magnitudes larger than permissionless DeFi

Ben Forman · Ben Forman – Opportunities in DeFi (EP.256, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.03) · Jun 20, 2022 · at 44:52

ParaFi Capital founder Ben Forman discusses the potential of permissioned, KYC-compliant decentralized finance relative to early crypto-native permissionless DeFi.

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“So for all those reasons, I still think permission DeFi is incredibly interesting, incredibly powerful, and probably will be Orders of magnitude larger than the DeFi that we know today.”

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