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Cryptogatekeepers as a Response to Conflicts in Decentralized Finance presents the following source proposition: However, the reality of DeFi governance reveals how disintermediation does not equate to the absence of conflicts or trust issues; instead, it shifts them into new, less-regulated domains. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Centralized financial technology does not complete the disintermediation it promises, because users still deal with a technology company as intermediary instead of a financial institution, which leaves room for the decentralized solutions DeFi attempts to provide. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
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