During his years of guiding his portfolio companies through regulatory waters in the United States, Andresseen Horowitz (A16Z) He has made several proposals to maintain the laws of values outside the cryptographic activity, and a new request to the Bag and Securities Commission is looking for such protection for decentralized finances. (Defi) Websites and mobile applications.
The application, sent in cooperation with the Defi Education Fund on Wednesday, follows an increase in the support of Defi of the White House and the president of the SEC, Paul Atkins, encouraging this corner of the cryptographic sector to move forward without burdensome regulatory energetic winds. The administration of President Donald Trump produced a recent cryptography report that included recommendations to “provide relief for certain service providers” of the Stock Exchange Registration Rules.
“The governing principle of the safe port is that only those applications that do not generate the risks that the regulatory regime of the stock exchange corridors of the exchange law be designed to address; in such cases, the registration as a corridor under the exchange law is unjustified and inappropriate,” according to the proposal.
In March, A16Z sent a long letter to the CRiptographic working group of the SEC that describes the company’s preferences for safe ports for network tokens and airdrops, and another proposal requested an exempt space for non -fungible tokens (NFT). Andreessen Horowitz Crypto Arm has also invested in defi companies, including Uniswap and Maker.
The head of the Trump SEC, Atkins, has promised to start taking friendly cryptographic actions, even in the absence of the long -awaited Congress legislation to completely establish the regulations of digital assets in the United States, an effort in progress in the Senate, after a recent vote of the Chamber to approve said bill. Atkins said his agency is starting “Crypto Project” so that his initiatives are ongoing.
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