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US SEC Chair Says Working on ‘Innovation Examption’ For Defi Platforms

In a Final Sec Crypto Roundtable, The Securities Watchdog Dug Into DeCentralized Finance, with Chairman Paul Atkins Promising Eafrts to Ease Developers’ Path.”, – WRITE: www.coindesk.com

In a Final Sec Crypto Roundtable, The Securities Watchdog Dug Into DeCentralized Finance, with Chairman Paul Atkins Promising Eafrts to Ease Developers’ Path. Jun 9, 2025, 6:28 PM

The US Securities and Exchange Commission Is Working on Policy to Exempt Decentralized Finance (Defi) Platforms from Regulatory Barriers, Said Chairman Paul Atkins.

Software Developers Building Defi Tools Have No Business Being Blue for How They’re Used, Atkins and Other Sec Republicans Contended at The Final of Five Crypto ROUNTABLES The Leadership Turnover Under President Donald Trump.

The Chairman Told A Roundtable of Defi Experts on Monday that he’s Directed the Sec Staff to Look Into Changes to Agency Rules “to Provide Need Accommodation Four Issuers On-Chain Financial Systems. ” Atkins Called That Potential Exampretive Relief “An Innovation Examphtion” That Wound Let Entities Under Sec Jurisdification Bring on -chain Products and Service to Market “Expeditios.

“Many entrepreneurs are development software applications that are designed to find with administration by any operator,” Atkins said in Remarks at the Event. While He Noted the Technology Enabling Private Peer-To-Peer Transactions Can “Sound Like Science Fiction Functions Without An intermediary. ”

“We Should Not Automatical Fear The Future,” Atkins Said.

Defi is a subsection of the Broader Cryptocurrency Industry That Seeks to Recreate Financial Tools and Products with Code Replaces The ROLE OF TRADCHERMESALIESSIRIRIESSIRISESSIRISESSIRISESSES.

The Republican Members of the Commission-Currently Outnumbering the Democrat 3-1-Have Been Eager to Move Forward with Crypto-Friendly Policy. While Defi is offen Given Short Shrift in Policy Discussions that Focus More on Regulation of the Higher-Volume Industry of Crypto Exchanges, Brokers and Custodial Services. Thought Defi Developers have Faced Years of DistRust from US Government Agencies, Republicans Now in Power Are Secking to Ligen Those Pressures.

“The Sec Must Not Infringe on FIRST AMEANDMENT RIGHTS by regulating someone who merely Published Code on the Basis That Other Use thing PEIRCE, WHO HAS LED The SEC Crypto Task Force Establissed this Year. However, She Also Noted that “Centralized Entities Can’s

Erik Voorhees, The Founder of Decentralized Exchange Shapeshift, Joked That When He Got His First Sec Subpoena 12 Years Ago, He Didn’t Think HE’D BE INVITED TO SPEAK.

“I Appreciate the Change of Tone and the Change of Stance for the Commission,” He Said. “I Think that’s Absolutely a Positive for America.”

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Jesse Hamilton

Jesse Hamilton is Coindesk’s DEPUTY Managing Editor On the Global Policy and Regulation Team, Based in Washington, DC Before Joinga Coindesk in 2022, He Worked For More Thon. News and Businessweek, Writing About the Early Whisperings Among Federal Agencies Trying to Decide What to Do About Crypto. He’s Won Several National Honors in His Reporting Career, Including from His Time As A War Correspondent in Iraq and As A Police Reporter for Newspapers. Jesse is a graduate of Western Washington University, WHERE HE STUDIED Journalism and History. He have no crypto holdings.

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