DeFi faces criticism for denying user access based on wallet content
Entrepreneur Brad Mills said that decentralized finance rebuilt everything wrong with Wall Street on a blockchain. While decentralized finance (DeFi) is expected to be an upgrade to traditional finance mechanisms, some believe that denying users access to decentralized exchanges based on their wallets is a backward move. In a tweet, entrepreneur Brad Mills criticized DeFi for denying users access to decentralized exchanges (DEXs) due to various factors such as location and wallet content. Because of this, Mills described the future of Web3 as a “surveillance panopticon” and said that it....
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