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On-Chain Finance in the US: Why KYC and AML Remain Unavoidable On September 7, 2026, Jake Chervinsky Jake Chervinsky , CEO of the Hyperliquid Policy Center, said in an interview with The Rollup The Rollup that KYC and AML requirements are unavoidable for onchain finance seeking compliant access to... show more
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@jchervinsky @therollupco This is probably where onchain finance was always headed in the U.S. Keep the rails onchain. Keep settlement fast. Build the compliance into the access points instead of pretending KYC/AML is just gonna disappear. 😂

@jchervinsky @therollupco Trader frame: write what makes you wrong before debating what might be right. Re-check liquidity under a funding oi lens.

@jchervinsky @therollupco They're not unavoidable They have been successfully avoided for 17 years and running

@jchervinsky @therollupco The forced trade is front-end capture: US onchain finance can keep self-custody rails, but revenue routes through KYC gateways. Anonymous pools get pushed offshore or drained of serious volume.

@jchervinsky @therollupco It's interesting to see how regulatory requirements shape the future of onchain finance!

@jchervinsky @therollupco Compliance is the price of institutional adoption here.

@jchervinsky @therollupco I used to rely on memory here. Now I focus on checking whether a trade still answered the original question.

kyc/aml as unavoidable for compliant us onchain finance is the split getting clearer - regulated rails vs private money. that tension is exactly why $zec encrypted cash keeps mattering. not as a kyc dodge meme - as a separate design for financial privacy when everything else gets watched.

@jchervinsky @therollupco yeah this is just tradfi rules meeting onchain rails, no way around it tbh
