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Digital assets converge, leaving financial inclusion gap

The digital asset industry is experiencing a "horseshoe effect," where high-performance decentralized finance platforms for traders and enterprise ledger platforms for institutions are converging. This convergence sacrifices some decentralization for increased efficiency and regulatory alignment, particularly benefiting institutions like JPMorgan with its Kinexys platform. This trend leaves a gap in financial inclusion for the underbanked populations in regions like Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa, a vacuum exacerbated by the collapse of projects like the Anchor protocol. AI

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Digital assets converge, leaving financial inclusion gap

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  1. Forbes — Innovation TIER_1 English(EN) · Jeff Mahony, Forbes Councils Member ·

    ​The Blockchain Horseshoe Effect: How Invisible Infrastructure Restores The ‘Empty Middle’

    The industry didn't just lose money in May 2022. It lost permission to ask normal people to trust it with their savings.