Great summary of the current state of TradFi's interest in DeFi.  Main headwind right now still lack of regulatory clarity, but climate is improving.  HT .@paradigm

From @paradigm's latest report on "DeFi and the Rise of Extensible Finance", TradFi spending the most on Risk management and Tech infra, exactly where we're focused.  Full report in the comments.

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Just now, a historic "closed-door" event occurred in the AI community.

Anthropic has officially banned access to OpenClaw using its own subscription plan!!!

Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, announced: Starting at 3 PM EST on April 4th (3 AM Beijing time on April 5th), Claude will block all third-party tools; access to these tools will only be available through additional subscription plans or APIs.

[OpenClaw] This means that thousands of users who rely on OpenClaw for improvements...