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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