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Can the crypto industry survive the scandals of 2023, or will increased regulation to sort the scams from the solid investments destroy the promise of decentralisation, asks Elaine Burke

For all the wrong reasons, 2023 was a monumental year for the decentralised finance (DeFi) industry. Long-running investigations into the crypto exchange FTX, and the subsequent arrest of founder Sam Bankman-Fried played out with the year book-ended by SBF’s “not guilty” plea in January and ...