最新报道：As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shifts toward a new approach to regulating digital assets, the DeFi Education Fund and Andreessen Horowitz are proposing a safe harbor for certain applications. In a letter sent Wednesday to SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, the venture capital firm and DeFi advocacy group called for a safe harbor to clarify broker-dealer rules for blockchain applications such as Uniswap, Coinbase Wallet, and OpenSea. "A safe harbor would provide much-needed regulatory clarity, maintain the Commission's authority to oversee high-risk activities, and ensure that developers can build in the United States without fear of misapplying legal categories inappropriate for modern software infrastructure," they stated. Calls for reform follow a notable shift in regulation under the administration of President Donald Trump. Over the past year, the agency has created a new cryptocurrency task force to "set the SEC on a sensible regulatory path," dropped investigations into several cryptocurrency companies, and launched a new initiative called "Project Crypto" to update its rules around digital assets. At the highest levels, Trump has repeatedly vowed to make the United States the "capital of cryptocurrency." The DeFi Education Fund and a16z say that specific SEC enforcement actions under the previous administration suggest the agency is suggesting these applications need to register as broker-dealers. The SEC had previously claimed that Coinbase Wallet acted as a broker and was unregistered, but a court later rejected that claim. The agency also previously issued notices to Uniswap Labs and OpenSea stating they were under investigation, but those notices were later rescinded. In order for applications to qualify for the proposed safe harbor and be excluded from the agency's broker-dealer regulatory system, they would need to be non-custodial, not make recommendations or exercise discretionary authority, and they say the underlying protocol would need to be decentralized. "These conditions are based on the belief that most applications are fundamentally non-custodial, passive software tools that allow users to interact directly with public, decentralized network and protocol infrastructure," they said in the letter. Amanda Tuminelli, executive director of the DeFi Education Fund, said the safe harbor is designed to be flexible. “Developers deserve clarity, and our hope in submitting this proposal is to provide guidance to front-end developers so they can build without worrying about being subject to unreasonable requirements that are out of sync with technical realities,” Tuminelli said in a statement.