Polkadot’s Gavin Wood: DeFi Regulation Is ‘a Good Thing’

Sep 21, 2021

Gavin Wood, CEO of smart contract blockchain Polkadot, which issues its native token DOT, discusses why regulation is good for DeFi, adding it would force projects and platforms to be truly decentralized, and it would weed out projects with more centralized elements.

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