Asset management giant Fidelity, in its latest report, suggested that the anticipated Federal Reserve rate cut could increase large institutions’ interest in decentralized finance (DeFi) and stablecoins as the infrastructure develops. Fidelity, in its report titled “2024 Outlook for Digital Assets” published on January 13, stated that while institutions were expected to turn to DeFi last year for returns, Federal Reserve rate hikes pushed them towards “perceived safer” traditional fixed-income products, preventing this shift. The report highlighted that DeFi platforms are seen as having difficult interfaces and being prone to attacks and hacks, which has kept institutions relatively distant from this space: