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The SEC has been urged by a16z and the DeFi Education Fund to create a safe harbor for blockchain apps, proposing conditions that would prevent developers from being deemed brokers and facing regulatory burdens that could affect the technology’s core functions. The post DeFi Education Fund, Andreesen Horowitz Demand SEC Create Blockchain ‘Safe Harbor’ appeared first on Cryptonews.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and the DeFi Education Fund have urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to create a “Safe Harbor” program for decentralized application (dApp) trading platforms. In an Aug. 12 letter to SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, the groups wrote that a clear framework would keep builders of non-custodial interfaces from being treated […] The post a16z and DeFi Education Fund push SEC for safe harbor on dApp regulation appeared first on CryptoSlate.

DeFi Education Fund called on the Senate Banking Committee to frame a key crypto market bill in a more tech-neutral way and strengthen crypto developer protections in a recent letter. Crypto lobby group DeFi Education Fund has called on the US Senate Banking Committee to rethink how it plans to regulate the decentralized finance industry after reviewing its recently published discussion draft on a key crypto market-structure bill. The response, signed on behalf of DeFi Education Fund (DEF) members including a16z Crypto, Uniswap Labs, and Paradigm, said the Responsible Financial Innovation Act of 2025 (RFA) bill should be crafted in a more tech-neutral manner, that crypto developers should be protected from “inappropriate regulation meant for intermediaries,” and that self-custody rights for all Americans are “essential.”  Legislation should “address illicit finance but not unfairly burden DeFi innovation,” it added in the Friday letter addressed to Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott and Senators Cynt...