Mandotary KYC for Defi platforms? LOL that's a joke? They will just kill crypto innovation in Europe. Because crypto platforms can incorporate them in a country at the opposite side of Earth, in just few days, or even hours. We are seeing that with crypto casinos. And some platforms are not even incorporated anywhere actually. In the end many services will just go hide on TOR or I2P to escape legal persecutions, and it will be even more difficult for authorities to monitor them.
They will NOT 'just kill crypto innovation in Europe'. It will allow innovation that has to have a viable business use case and is based on a (fairly) sound and legal basis as opposed to the early
scam and scandal ridden Wild West days of ICO's and their later variants
such as Ordinals, Runes, meme coins, etc.
Yes it will require records of who owns and runs the businesses. ALL
legitimate businesses no matter what they are need that.
DeFi projects have people behind the scenes running and maintaining them. Even if just to boost customer confidence in them, those people must be known. You view that as a 'problem' why?
Setting up a platform in a country that does not regulate it will be of zero use to users in the EU
(and USA) unless you intend to ONLY use crypto to pay for all of your needs. As soon as you (try to) exchange your crypto into fiat you will be screwed because your assets have no proof of origin.
Come to think of it, even just using crypto for your expenses will not work unless you only deal through the black markets because all reputable vendors will also want 'clean and verifiable' coins/tokens/etc as payment.