Regulators will come for DeFi frontends registered in founders' names
Enter Decentralized Cloud & Unstoppable Web with Akash Network & Deeper - DeFi Conference Day 1 (Dcentral Con)
“There’s a huge regulatory risk when you’re hosting your web UI on a domain name that’s registered under your name… the authorities could be like: no, you run uniswap.org, it’s registered [to] Hayden Adams… you’re facilitating exchange-type of relationship or money transfer on your domain, hosted in your name — hence you are responsible. Something is going to happen; I’m extremely scared of this notion… The solution to the problem is you should let your own clients, your own users, run their own UIs.” — 00:21:18
Context: A prescient 2021 warning (predating later DeFi frontend enforcement actions); he analogizes writing BitTorrent (legal) vs. hosting infringing files (not). Also claims running an Ethereum full node via Infura costs ~$25,000 ([00:23:27]).