Behind the Decentralized Finance Hype

April 6, 2021
15:00–15:45 (Asia/Tokyo time zone)

About this session

Decentralized finance, or DeFi, has seen tremendous growth over the past year, drawing parallels to the Initial Coin Offering and crypto boom of 2018. What is DeFi and what should we expect from this emerging ecosystem? The first 30 minutes of this session will be a livestreamed plenary, followed by a 30-minute private dialogue. Simultaneous interpretation in English and Japanese will be...
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