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a16z And DeFi Education Fund Ask SEC To Put DEXs Outside Exchange Registration
The two groups submitted a joint proposal to Commissioner Hester Peirce for a safe harbor that would create a rebuttable presumption that decentralized exchange protocols and their front-ends are not exchanges under the Exchange Act.

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