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   "text": "Blockchain's structural characteristic as a decentralized model for financial transactions disintermediates and disrupts the existing financial infrastructure, so private funds that adopt it first directly accelerate that disintermediation.",
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   "text": "The structural characteristic of blockchain as a decentralized model for financial transactions disintermediates and disrupts the existing financial infrastructure, so funds implementing it are spearheading radical change in financial markets rather than merely adopting a tool.",
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