Archive: transparency
Crypto Monitor: Understanding Institutional DeFi
By Early Investing on January 20, 2023
You’ve likely heard of decentralized finance, or DeFi. Now get ready for… institutional DeFi! Institutional DeFi refers to large institutions using DeFi protocols to tokenize real-world assets with regulatory compliance and institutional-level controls for consumer protection. Institutional DeFi comes with a lot of advantages — including more transparency, interoperable protocols, and tokenization. But it’s also a little troubling that large institutions are adopting the methods and means of DeFi. After all, crypto and DeFi were created…
The Early Investing Podcast: We Need More Transparent Private Markets
By Early Investing on January 18, 2023
The private markets have a transparency problem. Current regulations don’t require private companies to provide the same amount of information to investors as public companies are required to provide. And this is doing some real harm to investors. How did we get here? And can things…
New Pick: An Answer to Crypto’s Centralized Exchange Problem
By Vin Narayanan on December 16, 2022
Between FTX’s collapse and Binance’s current problems — which I wrote about for Early Investing this week — it’s clear that large centralized exchanges have become pain points in the crypto ecosystem. There are good reasons to…
Why Crypto Exchanges Shouldn’t Have to Follow the Travel Rule
By Andy Gordon on June 12, 2019
The U.S. is on track to adopt new operating procedures for crypto exchanges. But one of these rules will only create problems for the crypto industry.