TradFi doesn’t want DeFi. It wants blockchains.
THE SO WHAT
The a16z read is blunt: TradFi wants blockchains as cheaper, programmable rails — not DeFi's full-stack replacement of intermediaries. Builders should optimize for integration, compliance, and cost savings on existing products, not ideological purity or fully on-chain everything.
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