DeFi and Cefi, while both playing in the same ball park, have critical differences essential to the development of digital finance.
Last year was the year of CeFi collapses. While detrimental, investigations are shedding a light on CeFi's (not DeFi's) lack of transparency.
The Quadrata team launched their first major product, a low code Web3 passport for DeFi KYC after they formed less than eight months ago in Aug. 2021.
As the crypto industry waits for regulation in the U.S., CeFi has a trust dilemma. Increased transparency might be the way forward.