The divide isn’t TradFi / DeFi, it’s control / coordination

The Real Divide In Finance Isn’t TradFi vs DeFi, It’s Control vs Coordination

I entered crypto in 2017, when EtherDelta was one of the only live DEXs. It was clunky, slow, and borderline unusable. But people still used it. Because for the first time, you could trade without asking permission. That demand, despite the poor experience, was the first sign that coordination without control was possible, and it’s one of the core reasons DeFi exists today. But somewhere along the way, we lost the plot and got stuck in a binary …

The divide isn’t TradFi / DeFi, it’s control / coordination

The real divide about the future of finance isn’t between banks and protocols. It’s between black boxes and verifiable systems.