I’ve spent years thinking passively in the background what use cases there are for crypto and decentralized finance. I struggle a lot with the narrative around the benefits of permissionless, decentralized, money analogues because I don’t yet believe these are necessarily valuable in and of themselves. For example, it's very likely that most people who don’t trust their bank simply want a place to store their money that they can trust, not “decentralization”. Decentralization might be one tool to build a trustworthy system, but a system is not trustworthy simply because it's decentralized. I think these features will have to unlock novel, useful experiences to be truly valuable.
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