# Regulators will come for DeFi frontends registered in founders' names

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-06-27
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Enter Decentralized Cloud & Unstoppable Web with Akash Network & Deeper - DeFi Conference Day 1 (Dcentral Con)
- **Watch at:** 00:21:18 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6Zu5_AVKA&t=1278s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2021-06-27-regulators-will-come-for-defi-frontends-registered-hc24/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "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), 27 Jun 2021, 00:21:18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6Zu5_AVKA&t=1278s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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]).