NEW: Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will join fellow former Trump official Mick Mulvaney at DeFi startup Astra. jesseahamilton reports
advise Astra on its upcoming plans for raising capital and its interactions with the U.S. government.
“I’m fascinated and very excited by the DeFi evolution,” Nielsen said in an interview. “What we have been missing in DeFi is a layer of trust. Astra’s decentralized legal layer will assure regulatory compliance and enable efficient and fair dispute resolution.” “We are able to connect users to experts in the decentralized legal network within seconds and minutes,” Nielsen said. She contends the advance will “add more trust from a regulatory perspective,” which will result in more mainstream traditional capital coming into the market, boosting retail adoption.
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