FATF Says Most DeFi Platforms Have Central Controllers, Calls for Regulation

The Financial Action Task Force published findings that most DeFi platforms have identifiable central controllers and should be regulated as financial operators, yet 93% of surveyed countries have not applied these standards to any platform. FATF's report identifies governance tokens, administrative keys, protocol upgrades, and front-end operators as control vectors, with enforcement remaining near-total gap globally.

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