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DEX: Three Letters, One Financial Revolution

Open, anonymous, democratic: decentralized exchanges are sparking a revolution in the financial world.

By Mike Hesp
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DEX: Three Letters, One Financial Revolution

Open, anonymous, democratic: decentralized exchanges are sparking a revolution in the financial world. But their rise could come to an abrupt end.

For decades the financial world has been dominated by Wall Street. Its rules are law. Access is tightly regulated. That could change soon. Thanks to a revolutionary invention from the crypto space: the decentralized exchange (DEX).

Its inventors want to tear down the walls of the old financial aristocracy. And in just five years they have managed to drive a staggering rise. Uniswap, the largest platform of its kind, now rivals large centralized exchanges, with a daily trading volume of $1.2 billion. Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world's top centralized crypto exchange, predicts: "In ten years, DEXs will be bigger than centralized exchanges."

How DEX finance democratizes

The vision of the DEX revolutionaries: Anyone with internet access and a virtual wallet can participate in the complex world of cryptocurrency trading. Anonymous, simple, and entirely self-directed.

And this is where the democratization of finance begins: Decisions about decentralized exchanges aren’t made in closed shareholder meetings in the world’s financial metropolises, but on Discord servers. There, the globally distributed members of this new Web 3.0 community exchange information around the clock. Anyone can submit proposals.

But this dream of a market-changing revolution could soon face an abrupt end. Regulators around the world are watching the storm in traditional finance with keen eyes, and they could step in soon.

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