Decentralized finance’s (DeFi) surging popularity might backfire and hurt the forward-looking sector, Waves Association founder Sasha Ivanov told Cointelegraph in a recent interview. Ivanov compared DeFi to the 2017 ICO craze in a tweet earlier today, saying, “Please let's not make a new ICO bubble out of #DeFI.” When asked to elaborate on his statement, the founder noted that he strongly believes in DeFi, but is worried about the hype surrounding it: “DeFi is the future, but it's going to be coming through a bubble part of the cycle now, which can harm its long-term development.” In Ivanov’s opinion, DeFi …