High Speed Horizons: Speed and Scalability Converge - Anatoly Yakovenko

Finance is regulated. It's a very kind of system that every sovereign state doesn't want to give up control over. So even if you build a technology that can do finance, you still have to deal with like integrating it with the financial system as it is on the ground in whatever jurisdiction you're in. And if you have an open, transparent, permissionless system that's open source, that means nobody owns it. I think the slowest part in blockchain adoption is the the human brain almost adapting to this kind of new data structure that's common and I think as the industry matures and it shows that it can deliver finance cheaper and faster to consumers with reduced risk of fraud and reduced risk of defaults and actually show that in practice which I think it has repeatedly over the last few years.

Regulators want that