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Sure, but it's not trivial to create derivatives in the current system. You'll need to work closely with a financial institution that has the resources and relationships in place to seek regulatory approval. This pretty much restricts the financial space to college-educated people in the first world with wealth and connections.


Right, that's a good thing. Otherwise you get the chimera monster Binance who actively trades against its customers via its insurance fund. There is no world in which they're not trading against their customers to liquidate their positions. You also have flashbots on DeFi platforms - is that still a thing?


I agree Binance trading against customers is bad. But that's not decentralized finance, that's just a centralized entity using a system it owns.

The idea behind DeFi is to power the financial system using auditable, open code, and to be able to switch between these systems with little friction.

Flashbots (more generally MEV, miner extractable value) are an ongoing research problem, I'm not familiar with recent progress there.




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