Why Decentralized Systems Can’t Clear the CFO Sniff Test

Blockchain finance innovation focused so much on using technology to remove intermediaries that it hasn’t yet had time to ask many different questions. One of the more pressing ones, at least for the enterprise and institutional space, is: Once the intermediaries are gone, who takes responsibility when something goes wrong? Finance teams and enterprise back offices haven’t had the same luxury as crypto-native firms in answering that crucial question.