Smart Wallets and the Shifting Boundaries of Trust in Decentralized Finance

26/06/2025 13 min

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Kate Zogaj can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/06/smart-wallets-and-the-shifting-boundaries-of-trust-in-decentralized-finance/. About the post: This article explores how smart wallets not only reflect changing technological norms but also reveal deeper social and political dynamics. Drawing on themes of delegated trust, infrastructure politics, and usability, it asks what kinds of financial agency are being enabled—or foreclosed—as DeFi (Decentralized Finance) tools move from niche platforms to mainstream adoption.

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