Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and the DeFi Education Fund are urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to establish a safe harbor for decentralized applications (DApps). This request, as reported by Decrypt, aims to ease regulatory burdens on innovative DApps within the crypto space. A safe harbor would essentially provide a temporary reprieve from strict securities regulations. The core idea is to foster innovation by granting DApp developers, including those behind decentralized exchanges (DEXs), self-custody wallets, and NFT marketplaces, protection from being classified as broker-dealers. Under the proposed safe harbor, even DApps dealing with tokenized securities could potentially avoid SEC oversight, provided they adhere to specific pre-defined criteria. This would create a clearer path for developers and encourage further growth in the decentralized application ecosystem, while still allowing the SEC to address potential risks and protect investors in the long run. ```

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