a16z And DeFi Education Fund Ask SEC To Put DEXs Outside Exchange Registration
Andreessen Horowitz and the DeFi Education Fund asked the SEC to define when decentralized exchanges and the apps that provide access to them fall outside the exchange registration requirements of the Securities Exchange...
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Andreessen Horowitz, DeFi Education Fund ask SEC to exempt DEXs from registration
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