Crypto’s ‘DeFi’ Projects Aren’t Immune to Regulation, SEC’s Gensler Says

The Wall Street Journal2021-08-20

Some peer-to-peer trading and lending projects have features that may trigger the need for regulation, chairman says Gary Gensler, a longtime policy maker and former banker at Goldman Sachs, took over...

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neosg
2021-08-20
neosg
It's contradicting. Because pure Defi means no regulations from authorities possible lol
- MFME:
  are we sure no regulation?
Lowger
2021-08-20
Lowger
wooooooooaaaaaw
russ1122
2021-08-20
russ1122
hi
- lzh77:
  like please
- Lowger:
  wooooooaaaw
- BillyRReplylzh77:
  Crypto...
- russ1122:
  hi
- LimHanYuan:
  .

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