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ARK pushes back against a16z’s ‘TradFi wants blockchain, not DeFi’ claim

Cointelegraph 16 Jul 2026 1 views

ARK Invest’s director of research disputed a16z crypto’s thesis that traditional finance will adopt permissioned blockchain infrastructure instead of decentralized finance, saying institutions will increasingly rely on DeFi rails.

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