   
                <h1 id="open-finance">Open Finance</h1>
<h2 id="summary">Summary</h2>
<p>Open Finance refers to a number of decentralized protocols building open financial infrastructure. These protocols are valuable because they're creating the necessary plumbing to enable anyone in the world with an internet connection to access self-sovereign, censorship resistant financial services.</p>
<p>In the existing system, all financial services are controlled by a central party. Whether it's basic money tran