Curve Founder: FATF Pressure Could Make DeFi Safer, More Decentralized

Egorov's argument inverts the usual assumption that regulatory pressure is purely a threat to DeFi. The tension worth watching is whether compliance requirements actually push protocols toward credible decentralization, or simply toward the appearance of it while concentrating control elsewhere. That distinction matters for builders and users alike, since the FATF's reach extends to the fiat on-ramps most DeFi activity ultimately depends on. Whether security improvements arrive as genuine architecture or as compliance theater is the open question.