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DeFi vs. CeFI

Oct 13, 2019 ⋅  4 min read

A recent audit of Compound exposed four administrative functions that if fell in the wrong hands could allow an attacker to drain all of an attackers funds. This highlights that there are still components of DeFi that remain relatively centralized and act as single points of failure for entire systems.

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