2025-12-20 08:46:13

Regulators face a tough paradox: they want everyday people to participate in investing, yet they struggle to enforce meaningful safeguards against predatory practices. The finance industry has long mastered the art of skirting regulations, leaving retail investors vulnerable. It's a broken system where good intentions collide with industry sophistication—and regular folks end up paying the price. As decentralized finance gains traction, this fundamental weakness in traditional finance becomes harder to ignore.

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LiquidationHunter

· 2025-12-21 09:01

It's the same old story again. The regulators want the cake and want to eat it too, and in the end, suckers are still suckers. Traditional finance has played the avoidance game for decades, what can retail investors do? That's why we need Decentralized Finance. I'm really tired of this hypocritical protection; it's much more straightforward to go on-chain.

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HalfPositionRunner

· 2025-12-21 06:28

To put it bluntly, it's the old trick. The regulators want retail investors to come in, and then the financial sharks start to play people for suckers. There's simply no way to defend against it.

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CryptoTarotReader

· 2025-12-20 09:15

DeFi is really the best opportunity for a comeback. The traditional financial system has been wearing different disguises for so many years, but it still feels the same... Regulators are really in a tough spot.

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AirdropworkerZhang

· 2025-12-20 09:05

Basically, it's just the old tricks of traditional finance. Regulators want to play the good guys, but in the end, it's always us retail investors who get cut like chives.

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SilentAlpha

· 2025-12-20 08:57

NGL, this regulatory game is essentially a paper tiger. The traditional financial folks have long since played the rules to death... DeFi is the real thing that hits the core of the problem.

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