Jevons' Paradox: making something more efficient leads people to use more of it, not less.

DeFi was supposed to be the great escape from regulation. Permissionless, borderless, no gatekeepers.

The opposite happened. The better on-chain finance gets, the more regulation flows in, because efficiency attracts institutional capital, which demands regulatory oversight.

This is why OpenEden has been regulation-first from day one, and we built for it. We understood early that the path to unlocking trillions in tokenized RWAs doesn't bypass compliance; it addresses it directly.

— Jeremy Ng, Founder and CEO of OpenEden