People always frame it as a battle. Crypto vs banks. DeFi vs TradFi. The future vs the past.
I think that framing misses what's actually happening.
Let me explain both simply, because most people have a clearer picture of one than the other.
Traditional finance, what people in the space call TradFi, is the system most of us grew up with. Banks, stock markets, ETFs, commodities, bonds. It's regulated, established, and has been the backbone of how money moves globally for decades. It has its limitations, accessibility barriers, slow settlement times, heavy intermediaries, but it also has infrast