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DeFi faces criticism for denying user access based on wallet content

Published 11/08/2022, 05:02 AM
Updated 11/09/2022, 06:40 AM
DeFi faces criticism for denying user access based on wallet content

While decentralized finance (DeFi) is expected to be an upgrade to traditional finance mechanisms, some believe that denying users access to decentralized exchanges based on their wallets is a backward move.

In a tweet, entrepreneur Brad Mills criticized DeFi for denying users access to decentralized exchanges (DEXs) due to various factors such as location and wallet content. Because of this, Mills described the future of Web3 as a “surveillance panopticon” and said that it has rebuilt everything wrong with Wall Street but on a blockchain. Within the tweet, Mills also shared an image of a pop-up message from 1inch Network’s decentralized application (DApp) restricting access because of the wallet address used.

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