Decentralized financing may become an effective tool for developing financial markets in the Russian Federation in the foreseeable future, but its legitimization is associated with a number of threats and occurs in conditions of uncertainty. At the same time, postponing decisions in the development of the state's financial policy may lead to even greater costs associated with the departure of a promising segment of the new financial market into the shadows. The paper considers the opportunities and threats of decentralized financing development for traditional financial institutions in the Russian Federation. The study was prepared using the methods of conceptual, comparative analysis, financial and economic foresight. Results: the concept of decentralized financing is clarified, the differences between decentralized financing and digital financial assets previously legalized in Russia are considered. International experience of companies - traditional financial intermediaries - entering decentralized financing is presented, which is mainly in the nature of a test approbation of possibilities. Based on international statistics, an increase in the share of traditional financial companies in the volume of decentralized borrowings is shown. The article describes the diversity of development opportunities in the decentralized finance market for such classic financial intermediaries as commercial banks. Solutions for the development of financial policy in the Russian Federation are proposed, the need for legalization and the fastest possible construction of a sovereign infrastructure of decentralized finance with the safe involvement of traditional financial institutions is argued.
A. Pogosyan (Fri,) studied this question.