{"id":425796,"date":"2024-06-23T14:34:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T13:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=425796"},"modified":"2024-06-23T14:34:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T13:34:53","slug":"cryptos-dirty-little-secret-its-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/cryptos-dirty-little-secret-its-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto\u2019s dirty little secret? It\u2019s safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The following is a guest post by Ben Mills, Co-Founder at Meso.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission blessed <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/ethereum\/\">Ether<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/bitcoin\/\">Bitcoin<\/a> ETFs, and the U.S. House passed FIT-21 with bipartisan support. The perception is that those are the next steps in the ongoing experiment to see whether regulation can reduce the risks inherent in crypto and tame the wild digital assets sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what if I told you that, by nature, crypto has the potential to be far safer than the existing financial system?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The salient concept here is \u201ccustody,\u201d or more specifically, \u201cself-custody\u201d \u2013 the ability for people to maintain control over their own assets and data during financial transactions, without intermediation from third parties like banks, exchanges, or web companies,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s be honest. The majority of people who pay passing attention to crypto most likely have their opinions shaped by news headlines about catastrophes like the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s FTX or the conviction of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on money laundering charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, those scandals had much more to do with human nature than the nature of crypto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking back to the 2019-2020 bull market for crypto, developers were attempting to build sophisticated crypto-powered applications that were simple for neophyte traders and investors. In too many cases, simplicity was achieved by sacrificing self-custody and trusting the responsible stewardship of massive Centralized Exchanges like FTX.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consumers were peddled a combination of the worst risks of Web2 fintech and the unsolved problems of Web3. This shortcut-taking led to disaster for the companies, their investors and their customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But we don\u2019t need to hearken back to Lehman Brothers to show that crypto has no monopoly on spectacular financial failures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consider, for example, the ongoing case of <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/emilymason\/2024\/05\/17\/federal-bank-regulators-wont-rescue-fintech-customers-caught-in-synapse-bankruptcy\/?sh=3b42175c16a3\">Synapse Financial Technologies<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a non-crypto company whose platform is an intermediary allowing financial technology companies to provide bank-like services (such as checking accounts, credit cards and debit cards).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The issues of trust and custody are at the heart of the implosion of the banking-as-a-service pioneer that was once touted as the leading edge of fintech and is now teetering between bankruptcy and liquidation. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Martin R. Brash said \u201ctens of millions\u201d of individual \u201cdepositors\u201d are on the hook for losses amounting to \u201cpotentially hundreds of millions of dollars,\u201d according to a report from <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/emilymason\/2024\/05\/14\/judge-says-up-to-20-million-fintech-depositors-are-at-risk-from-synapse-bankruptcy\/?sh=6c581b785ca4\">Forbes<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking as a developer and former products expert for companies such as Braintree, Venmo and Paypal, who has since seen the light on blockchain payments, I can tell you that the real strength of crypto, compared to traditional fintech, is it enables developers to build in a much faster and leaner way. That\u2019s because the underlying blockchain technology already accounts for fintech bugbears such as data security, payment integrations and \u2013 as mentioned above \u2013 custody of funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new generation of crypto-powered apps has the advantage of new technology that abstracts complex details in favor of user-friendly interfaces. At the same time, it preserves self-custody, so it doesn\u2019t run the same risk that centralized entities posed during the last cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, while public attention has been fixated on extinguishing the fires lit during 2019-2020, crypto infrastructure has matured to the point where we can get the best of both worlds: A friendly Web2 user experience with apps built by developers who don't have to worry about taking custody of user data or funds, making it safer for every participant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s what gets developers and crypto entrepreneurs excited about digital assets. Crypto is becoming safer, faster, and easier \u2013 ultimately refining itself out of the average users' experience. This intentional invisibility is a key goal at the end of crypto\u2019s journey to becoming a significant component of the mainstream financial system and people's everyday lives.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a guest post by Ben Mills, Co-Founder at Meso. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission blessed Ether and Bitcoin ETFs, and the U.S. House passed FIT-21 with bipartisan support. 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