On today's show, Marcelo M. Prates, a CoinDesk columnist, central bank lawyer and researcher, looks at how Decentralized Finance (DeFi) kind of works like a vending machine but that's leading traditional finance to the point of mass-market automation.

Read the story here.

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This episode was edited & produced by Adrian Blust.

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How DeFi Works: Inside the DeFi Vending Machine