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It has become something close to common wisdom in the digital asset industry that the labs and protocol teams building decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols sit outside the anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) perimeter. The reasoning is familiar: Although labs write software, the software runs itself, users hold their own keys, and no one takes custody of anyone’s assets. Under this argument, there is no “financial institution” with the

Last week, Klaros client Compound Labs announced that S&P Global Ratings had assigned B- credit ratings to Compound Prime, LLC, the...

BY DANIEL BULAEVSKY I recently shared some thoughts in Coindesk and LendIt Fintech News about how crypto companies that are building...