Before billions of people streamed videos on their phones or ran businesses from their pockets, the groundwork was quietly being laid. Satellites were going into orbit. Fiber-optic cables were being buried beneath cities. 5G towers were rising across skylines. That hidden infrastructure is what made the mobile internet possible.

I've seen this playbook before. The Ergen family spent decades helping to expand the physical backbone of global connectivity, long before most people realized the importance of that infrastructure. Today, I see the same story playing out again, this time in the naturally evolving world of decentralized finance (DeFi). The biggest breakthroughs always begin with what people don't see. In telecom, it was towers and satellites. In DeFi, it's infrastructure, regu

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