Crypto exchanges also function like banks (holding customer deposits, making loans/investments with customer funds), just without reserve requirements or FDIC i

Crypto exchanges also function like banks (holding customer deposits, making loans/investments with customer funds), just without reserve requirements or FDIC insurance. The protections against bank runs that we have in place in TradFi are largely lacking in crypto, and the whole sector seems to have reached 1929 in its speed run of modern economic history.