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A16z & DeFi Lobbyists Push SEC for Safe Harbor—Will Regulators Finally Play Ball?
A16z & DeFi Lobbyists Push SEC for Safe Harbor—Will Regulators Finally Play Ball?
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DeFi's heavyweights are making their move. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and key DeFi players just pitched the SEC on a regulatory safe harbor—an olive branch to bureaucrats who still think 'wallet' means leather.
The ask: A sandbox for decentralized apps to dodge the securities-law guillotine. No more knee-jerk enforcement, just breathing room for innovation. The SEC’s response? Probably another 'How do we tax this?' meeting.
Wall Street’s watching—not to participate, just to short the eventual backlash. Meanwhile, DeFi builders keep coding while regulators debate if a smart contract is a security, a commodity, or a existential threat to their 9-to-5.
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