The Treasure US claims that the decentralized crypto services threaten the security from the country. Of the rogue states et cybercriminals take advantage ofopacity offered by the DeFi to move and whiten of the fondsaccording to the US Department.
The United States Treasury Department published this week a long report on the risks posed by decentralized finance services (DeFi) and announced that it wanted to monitor this ecosystem more, reports the Wall Street Journal.
This risk assessment explores how illicit actors abuse what are commonly referred to as decentralized finance (DeFi) services. […] The assessment reveals that illicit actors, including cybercriminals, thieves, scammers, and cyber actors from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, use DeFi services in the process of transferring and laundering their illicit proceeds” , can we read in the preamble of the document.
THE services DeFi refer to protocols built on blockchains like Ethereum, operating without an intermediary and which are governed by DAOdecentralized autonomous entities.
Today the most major DeFi protocols in terms of locked value are LidoMakerDao, Aave, Curve and Uniswap, depending on the data provider defillama.
The Treasury says that DeFi services that do not set up monitoring measures to fight bad actors risk sanctions.
The private sector should use the department’s findings to inform their own risk mitigation strategies,” said Under Secretary of the Treasury Brian Nelson.
At the same time, the American federal authority claims to recognize that “the most activities related to money laundering or terrorist financing by volume and value of transactions are carried out with Fiat money and take place outside of the crypto ecosystem.
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