# kaal:claim:3606663-029

**Claim.** At the beginning of the 2020s DeFi was not sufficiently user friendly, because core interfaces such as metamask, myetherwallet, and scatter require levels of technical know how in handling public and private keys that most lay users do not possess.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- lay retail users of DeFi interfaces
- beginning of the 2020s

**Source quote.**

> At the beginning of the 2020s, DeFi was not sufficiently user friendly.

**From.** Kaal, *Digital Asset Market Evolution* (2020), c) Growth Limitations, page 70

**Cite as.** Kaal, Digital Asset Market Evolution (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3606663

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**Failure mode.** key management usability barrier  (family: adoption-and-usability-barrier)

**Topics.** defi

**Keywords.** defi, usability, adoption-barriers, key-management, growth-limitations

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-041

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