**[Lighter CEO: DeFi Should Not Be Seen as Opposed to Regulators]** Foresight News reports that Lighter CEO Vladimir Novakovski stated during the U.S. CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee meeting that DeFi has long been misunderstood and should not be viewed as being in opposition to regulators. Transactions are recorded on the ledger in a verifiable manner, which helps regulators in areas such as transparency, consumer protection, and fairness. Decentralized and verifiable finance will become an important part of the future financial infrastructure in the United States, especially in terms of cybersecurity and operational resilience. More technologies should evolve toward open-source and verifiable technology stacks. In addition, he noted that AI has the potential to promote financial democratization, enabling users to construct portfolios or strategies based on their macroeconomic, economic, or industry judgments through AI—something that was primarily accessible to high-net-worth individuals and professional fund managers just a few years ago. The main risk brought by AI is consumer protection, such as consumers not understanding the specific functions of an AI model or being misled about its capabilities. Therefore, it is crucial to establish sandboxes for models and validate their effectiveness and formal verifiability before they are widely deployed for consumer use.