We always talk about how much of a financial revolution crypto payments really are for our society; the democratisation of wealth access; how consumer apps onchain can bring back real ownership for users; how NFT utility empower people, etc. But there is another side to this industry. Money-laundering, insider trading, fraud, and other types of illicit financing. It's happening at a scale that I don't believe law enforcements have the capacity to control, nor do they have the technological solutions innovative enough to really help them (besides blockchain investigative tools like Elliptic, TRM Labs, Chainanalysis). As tech advances, so do the tools criminals have access to. They're using the same tech you're using, except it's to fuel their greed. The rate of innovation on the consumer side is way more than the innovation on the protection side––and that's a real gap that I wish we can fill. For example, who is building blockchain-enabled products to help asset forfeiture? You probably can't name one. I predict this will become increasingly important as institutions flood in. But there's just no focus on this at all (and I guess partly because builders don't feel responsible for it). I'm yet to see sidetracks in hackathons for consumer protection (does ZK count here?), law enforcement facilitation, and security, or bounties that incentivise deep research into how we can prevent market manipulations via memecoins, celeb coins. I wonder if there will be a shift of focus soon.