BlackRock Executive: Knowing Who Counterparties Are Is Key to Engaging Institutions in DeFi
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NEW YORK – Developing digital identity infrastructure such that counterparties know who they are trading with is critical to getting large institutions involved in decentralized finance (DeFi), said Joseph Chalom, head of strategic partnerships at BlackRock, at the State of Crypto Summit held by Coinbase and the Financial Times in New York on Thursday. The post BlackRock Executive: Knowing Who Counterparties Are Is Key to Engaging Institutions in DeFi appeared first on BitcoinLinux.
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