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Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm argues that the popular idea of a coming “DeFi-TradFi convergence” gets the direction of travel wrong. In its view, traditional financial institutions are not embracing decentralized finance as a philosophy. They are using blockchain where it improves costs, settlement, distribution, and operational efficiency, while discarding the parts of DeFi that conflict with control, compliance, and accountability. The piece says institutional adoption follows a clear filter: a component must improve cost, risk, or distribution without weakening internal controls. That is why tools such as atomic settlement, shared ledgers, programmable money, and tokenized collateral are gaining traction, while open access, anonymity, and trustless execution are usually excluded. Examples cited include JPMorgan’s permissioned deposit chain, tokenized money market funds from BlackRock and Franklin Templeton, Circle’s Arc network, SWIFT’s tokenization interoperability work, Canton, Morpho, and Apollo’s ACRED fund. a16z argues the market actually presents two opportunities, not one: helping institutions use infrastructure they are ready to adopt today, and continuing to build open, crypto-native financial systems that institutions are not ready to use yet. Those tracks can coexist, but companies usually need to choose one market clearly because selling to institutions and building for open networks require different products, go-to-market models, and measures of success.

a16z Crypto argues that the long-running idea of traditional finance eventually merging with decentralized finance is largely misguided. In its view, institutions will use blockchain where it lowers costs, improves settlement, expands distribution, or strengthens control over customer relationships, but they are not embracing the open and permissionless design principles that define DeFi. The firm says this selective adoption is producing a separate category: programmable financial infrastructure. That category uses blockchain features such as programmability, transparency, atomic settlement, and tokenized collateral, while often discarding open access, pseudonymity, and trustless execution. The result is not simply traditional finance on-chain, nor today’s DeFi transplanted into regulated markets. The article points to examples including JPMorgan’s permissioned blockchain deposits, tokenized money market funds from BlackRock and Franklin Templeton, Circle’s Arc, and SWIFT’s work on tokenized asset interoperability. It also argues that builders face two distinct opportunities: serving institutions that are ready for blockchain infrastructure today, and continuing to build open crypto-native financial systems that institutions may not yet be prepared to use. If both tracks succeed, a16z says, convergence may happen over time at the infrastructure layer rather than through one system replacing the other.

a16z Crypto argues that the common narrative of a smooth merger between decentralized finance and traditional finance misses what institutions are actually doing. In its view, banks, asset managers, payment firms, and other financial companies are adopting selected blockchain components because those tools improve settlement, lower operating costs, expand distribution, and fit existing control frameworks — not because they have embraced decentralization. The article says institutional adoption follows a recognizable pattern. Features such as atomic settlement, shared ledgers, programmable money, tokenized collateral, and pricing mechanisms derived from AMMs can be useful inside regulated finance. Open access, anonymity, and trustless execution usually are not. That is why projects from JPMorgan, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Circle, and SWIFT should be understood as blockchain-based upgrades to existing financial workflows rather than experiments in DeFi. a16z Crypto also frames the market as two parallel opportunities: building blockchain-based infrastructure institutions can use now, and continuing to build open, crypto-native financial systems that institutions may not be ready for yet. The piece says founders should not assume success in one market carries into the other. Instead, they need to decide clearly whether they are serving institutions or open networks, while recognizing that both paths may eventually rely on the same public-chain settlement rails.

Tokenized real-world assets are expanding well beyond U.S. Treasury products, but the core challenge is no longer just putting funds onchain. In a commentary by Prathik Desai, the bottleneck is the coordination layer that has to reconcile two very different systems: always-on DeFi rails and traditional funds that still rely on daily NAV updates, KYC-gated holders and redemption cutoffs tied to offchain settlement windows. The piece says tokenized RWA pools now exceed $33 billion, with tokenized U.S. Treasuries accounting for roughly $15 billion. Their share, however, has dropped from 55% to under 45% in one year as other tokenized products, including institutional credit and private credit funds, have grown. Examples cited include Apollo’s ACRED and Janus Henderson’s JAAA. Desai argues that institutional adoption will depend on whether infrastructure providers can solve three points of friction: how token prices are handled between NAV updates, where compliance checks sit, and how ownership and balances stay synchronized across chains. The article points to a joint LayerZero-Centrifuge framework built around a hub-and-spoke model, where one authoritative chain manages NAV, accounting and compliance while other chains are used for distribution and DeFi composability. The report also highlights operational risks including stale NAV arbitrage, redemption gate conflicts and failed cross-chain messaging.

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