Daniel | defi.com and ACAP retweeté
Daniel | defi.com and ACAP
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Daniel | defi.com and ACAP
@_DanielAllen
Daniel is the Founder of https://t.co/f5gdKTZ4Jb and @deficom, where the company is building the identity layer, for a simpler, private, more accessible DeFi.
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Daniel | defi.com and ACAP retweeté
"Privacy without identity is just hiding."
Our CEO @_neilmay in @BusinessInsider on what crypto gets wrong about privacy and what identity-first finance actually looks like.
Read the full article below↓.
markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencie…
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Daniel | defi.com and ACAP retweeté
Crypto got the privacy debate wrong.
Privacy gives users control over their data.
Compliance is who you are to the system.
Done right, DeFi gets safer without collecting more than it needs.
Our CEO @_neilmay spoke with @DefiantNews on why we're building both into defi ID™.
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Daniel | defi.com and ACAP retweeté
🗣️ @deficom founder Daniel Allen (@_DanielAllen) says #DeFi still does not know its users despite building advanced financial infrastructure.
In a CCN op-ed, he explains why portable identity, selective disclosure, and verifiable credentials could shape the next phase of DeFi adoption. ⬇️ 👥
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Daniel | defi.com and ACAP retweeté
Daniel | defi.com and ACAP retweeté
Daniel | defi.com and ACAP retweeté
Daniel | defi.com and ACAP retweeté
How does DeFi earn trust?
By building an identity layer that simplifies the experience for everyone.
Secure technology. Real usability.
That's how the space moves forward.
DL Research@dl_research
Has DeFi earned mainstream trust yet? @deficom CEO @_neilmay says no. The domain has been held for years, waiting for the market to mature. That moment is now, and the team is bringing a unified, crosschain identity layer to solve a fragmented experience: dlnews.com/research/inter…
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I acquired defi.com in 2018.
We built quietly, waiting for the right moment.
What comes next?
Placing people at the centre of finance -
Starting with defi ID™.
Claim yours now.
defi.com@deficom
Simple. Secure. Global. Modern finance redesigned around you. Reserve your defi ID™ today.
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Daniel | defi.com and ACAP retweeté
Daniel | defi.com and ACAP retweeté
For DeFi to thrive and attract a wider pool of capital it needs to strike the right balance between privacy and transparency through a proactive approach to compliance, @AntoniZolciak writes.
An opinion for #TradingWeek, presented by @CMEGroup: coindesk.com/consensus-maga…
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We're living in a global age: news, media, products - accessible everywhere and at all times.
When borders don't stop anything else, why are they still defining how money moves?
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Daniel | defi.com and ACAP retweeté
Onchain Finance Weekly (W11):
Tokenized financial infrastructure is moving from experimentation to real commercial deployment.
Last week’s signals show how quickly TradFi and crypto rails are converging:
Nasdaq x Kraken:
Building a gateway connecting tokenized equities with blockchain distribution
Nasdaq x Börse Stuttgart:
Advancing tokenized settlement infrastructure across Europe
Mastercard:
Assembling an 85+ company digital asset partner ecosystem to scale payments and settlement
Citigroup x Euroclear:
Issuing a digitally native structured note on tokenized market rails
HSBC and Standard Chartered:
Expected among first stablecoin licensees in Hong Kong
Other important signals:
- Broadridge extending institutional order routing into crypto markets
- Coinbase and Paxos enabling stablecoin-based insurance payments
- Forum Markets testing 24/7 blockchain settlement for auto finance
The bigger pattern👇
We are watching the financial stack being rebuilt where:
- Issuance becomes digital-native
- Settlement becomes 24/7
- Distribution becomes global
- Infrastructure becomes programmable
Tokenization is no longer about pilots.
It’s starting to look like the next version of market infrastructure.
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One of crypto's most overlooked challenges is identity.
Financial systems scale when people can interact with trust and context. Building that layer is the next step.
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Daniel | defi.com and ACAP retweeté
We all talk about crypto mass adoption.
Yet the infrastructure is built in a way that discourages it.
Imagine an ordinary user with zero crypto knowledge trying to swap ETH > AAVE
Suddenly they are confronted with terms like slippage, liquidity depth, asset pair volatility & algorithmic pricing.
How is anyone new to crypto supposed to understand that?
This is why many web2 folks still dismiss the industry and stick with what they already know.
Until the user experience becomes truly frictionless, crypto mass adoption will remain an illusion.
DeFi’s success may be inevitable.
But right now, it’s unreadable.
And an anti-human interface is not the path to get there.
This only shows how far we still have to go.
Stani@StaniKulechov
Earlier today, a user attempted to buy AAVE using $50M USDT through the Aave interface. Given the unusually large size of the single order, the Aave interface, like most trading interfaces, warned the user about extraordinary slippage and required confirmation via a checkbox. The user confirmed the warning on their mobile device and proceeded with the swap, accepting the high slippage, which ultimately resulted in receiving only 324 AAVE in return. The transaction could not be moved forward without the user explicitly accepting the risk through the confirmation checkbox. The CoW Swap routers functioned as intended, and the integration followed standard industry practices. However, while the user was able to proceed with the swap, the final outcome was clearly far from optimal. Events like this do occur in DeFi, but the scale of this transaction was significantly larger than what is typically seen in the space. We sympathize with the user and will try to make a contact with the user and we will return $600K in fees collected from the transaction. The key takeaway is that while DeFi should remain open and permissionless, allowing users to perform transactions freely, there are additional guardrails the industry can build to better protect users. Our team will be investigating ways to improve these safeguards going forward.
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DeFi has completed the hardest tasks:
The infrastructure has been built, the security has been demonstrated, and the value has been established.
What’s standing between DeFi and the mainstream is its complexity and inability to translate.
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Re-KYC across every app is where DeFi faces the most drop-off.
The best user experience doesn't come from building one giant product; it comes from a shared identity layer that makes every product feel like one. DeFi’s unification moment starts with a cohesive, portable identity.
Bankless@Bankless
The financial super app probably won’t look like one giant app. “Robinhood Banking, Robinhood main app, Non-custodial wallet” “These apps will all be linked together with uniform KYC, seamless money movement.” 🎙️ @vladtenev
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Daniel | defi.com and ACAP retweeté
Most people don't have a clue - but Crypto is taking over the World... right now.
Mastercard is acquiring stablecoin infrastructure (BVNK) and recently announced its crypto payments network with 85+ companies.
At the same time, we’re seeing parallel moves across the industry - from tokenized assets to 24/7 trading infrastructure - all pointing in the same direction.
The entire Global Financial Infrastructure is moving on-chain.
That’s how Trillions enter the market.
Massive new access points for users and institutions, with seamless, compliant rails into digital assets.
This Alt Season will actually be Utility Token Season... most people won’t even realize it’s happening.
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Daniel | defi.com and ACAP retweeté
BREAKING: @Mastercard to acquire stablecoin infrastructure company BVNK for up to $1.8B.
Deal adds on-chain payment rails for stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and tokenized assets across 130+ countries to Mastercard's existing network.
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Daniel | defi.com and ACAP retweeté
The Enso Network is live. A universal engine powering Web3.
Over 145 projects are already powered by Enso.
Now, the network goes live, enabling anyone to read and write across all chains from a single source.
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