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It’s hardly an exaggeration to say that our trade is dealing with robust instances. We’ve been within the midst of a “crypto winter” for a while now, with the costs of mainstays, together with (BTC) and Ether (ETH), tumbling. Likewise, month-to-month nonfungible token (NFT) buying and selling volumes have fallen greater than 90% since their multibillion greenback peak again in January of this yr. In fact, these declines have solely been exacerbated by the quite a few black swan occasions rocking the crypto world, such because the FTX and Three Arrows Capital meltdowns. Taken collectively, it shouldn’t be a shock that crypto is dealing with a belief deficit.
Whereas the damaging actions of reckless CEOs have to be addressed and the people liable for these occasions have to be held accountable, our trade can’t cease there if we’re to rebound. To handle the belief deficit that crypto faces, higher safety for the top consumer in opposition to the specter of scams and hacks have to be a precedence.
Riccardo Pellegrini is the co-founder and CEO of Web3 Builders. He served beforehand in positions together with head of product for Amazon (NASDAQ:) Internet Companies’ Information Change, and as CEO of Crossfield Digital. He completed his undergraduate profession and obtained an MBA each at Harvard College.
