The founder and CEO of crypto exchange FalconX breaks down 3 reasons why DeFi is here to stay – and shares 5 cryptocurrencies institutional clients are most interested in at the moment

• FalconX CEO Raghu Yarlagadda told Insider 3 reasons DeFi is here to stay.
• He said regulation would lead to more money pouring into crypto.
• He also shared five cryptocurrencies institutional investors are most interested in.

Some outside of the crypto space refuse to enter it because they see a wave of crippling regulation headed toward it.

Take Amundi’s top US portfolio manager Marco Pirondini for example.

“I think that the government will increase the legislation and the controls, and will make them innocuous in time because government wants and needs control of the currency,” he told Insider in June. “Can you imagine the US not in control of the monetary policy?”