TechFlow News, May 8: According to a CoinDesk report from the “Perpetual DEX Explosion: Bullish Volumes and Bear-Market Resilience” panel at Consensus Miami, several industry insiders stated that institutional investors are still largely avoiding decentralized exchanges offering perpetual futures (Perp DEXs). Veteran trader Wizard of SoHo pointed out that Drift’s recent multi-million-dollar hack underscores security vulnerabilities across the DeFi ecosystem; ensuring secure onboarding of institutional capital will thus become a core competitive focus for major Perp DEXs. Anderson of Canary Labs expressed concern over DeFi’s current security posture, noting that large institutions face significantly greater hurdles adopting decentralized exchanges compared to centralized platforms.
Additionally, the structural tension between DeFi’s permissionless, open design and institutions’ stringent KYC compliance requirements is viewed as a key barrier to scalable adoption. Michaël van de Poppe, founder of MN Fund, shared his perspective on AI-powered trading tools, stating that AI agents represent an evolutionary extension of algorithmic trading—and that trading will increasingly move toward full automation.
