#CryptoRoundTableRemarks
Remarks at the Crypto Task Force Roundtable on Decentralized Finance
Today’s roundtable is titled “DeFi and the American Spirit.” This is an apt title because the American values of economic liberty, private property rights, and innovation are in the DNA of the DeFi, or Decentralized Finance, movement.
Blockchains, of course, are a very creative and potentially revolutionary innovation that has us rethinking evidence of ownership and transfer of intellectual and economic property rights. They are shared databases that enable ownership of a type of digital property called crypto assets without reliance on an intermediary or central party. Instead, these peer-to-peer networks incorporate an economic mechanism to encourage participants to validate and maintain the database in accordance with the network’s rules. These are free market systems where users pay demand-based fees to network participants to have their transactions included within a so-called “block” of data with finite storage capacity.
