Notice2025-13084

Dream Exchange Holdings, Inc.; Notice of Filing of Amendment No. 1 to an Application for Registration as a National Securities Exchange Under Section 6 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

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July 14, 2025

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 132 (Monday, July 14, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31310-31311]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-13084]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-103430; File No. 010-00248]


Dream Exchange Holdings, Inc.; Notice of Filing of Amendment No. 
1 to an Application for Registration as a National Securities Exchange 
Under Section 6 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

July 9, 2025.
    On February 14, 2025, Dream Exchange Holdings, Inc. (``DreamEx'') 
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission'') a 
Form 1 application under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
(``Exchange Act''), seeking registration as a national securities 
exchange under Section 6 of the Exchange Act.\1\ Notice of the 
application was published for comment in the Federal Register on March 
3, 2025.\2\ The Commission received no comments on the Form 1. On May 
30, 2025, the Commission instituted proceedings pursuant to Section 
19(a)(1)(B) of the Exchange Act \3\ to determine whether to grant or 
deny DreamEx's application for registration as a national securities 
exchange under Section 6 of the Exchange Act.\4\ On July 8, 2025, 
DreamEx filed an amendment to its Form 1 application (``Amendment No. 
1'').\5\ The Commission is publishing this notice in order to solicit 
views of interested persons on DreamEx's Form 1, as amended by 
Amendment No. 1.
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    \1\ 15 U.S.C. 78f.
    \2\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 102484 (Feb. 25, 
2025), 90 FR 11078 (Mar. 3, 2025).
    \3\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(a)(1)(B).
    \4\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 103157 (May 30, 
2025), 90 FR 23751 (June 4, 2025) (``OIP'').
    \5\ Amendment No. 1 is available on the Commission's website at: 
<a href="https://www.sec.gov/rules-regulations/other-commission-orders-notices-information/dream-exchange-form-1">https://www.sec.gov/rules-regulations/other-commission-orders-notices-information/dream-exchange-form-1</a>.
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I. Description of DreamEx

    As described in the OIP, DreamEx proposes to operate a fully 
automated electronic trading platform for the trading of NMS stocks 
with a continuous automated matching function. DreamEx would not 
maintain a physical trading floor. Liquidity would be derived from 
orders to buy and orders to sell submitted to DreamEx electronically by 
its registered broker-dealer members from remote locations. DreamEx 
proposes to have one class of membership open to registered broker-
dealers and also proposes to allow members to register under DreamEx 
rules as market makers on DreamEx and be subject to certain specified 
requirements and obligations set forth in DreamEx's proposed rules. 
DreamEx proposes to enter into a technology services agreement with 
MEMX Technologies, LLC (``MEMX Technologies'') to license the 
technology underlying the DreamEx trading platform.\6\ DreamEx would 
not own the trading technology and systems developed by MEMX 
Technologies. DreamEx would be a subsidiary of its parent companies: DX 
Capital Partners, LLC (``DxC''), which would own 50.1% of the common 
stock of DreamEx; Dream Exchange LLC (``DxLLC''), which would own 49.9% 
of the common stock of DreamEx; and Dream Exchange Preferred Holdings 
LLC (``DxP''), which would own 100% of the preferred stock of DreamEx.
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    \6\ MEMX Technologies is affiliated with MEMX LLC (``MEMX 
Exchange''), a registered national securities exchange. MEMX 
Exchange is not a party to the proposed technology services 
agreement.
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II. Amendment No. 1 to DreamEx's Form 1

    In Amendment No. 1, DreamEx proposes to revise Exhibits A, A-2, C, 
C-2, C-4, C-6, J, and K principally to: (1) update the ownership, 
voting, and governance provisions in the DreamEx By-Laws and the 
limited liability company agreements of DxC, DxLLC, and DxP, including 
a limited temporary exemption from the ownership and voting limitations 
in the DxC limited liability company agreement and from the voting 
limitations in the DxLLC limited liability company agreement, to 
conform to the ownership, voting, and governance provisions of existing 
national securities exchanges; (2) make related conforming and 
definitional changes; (3) update the list of shareholders owning 5% or 
more of DreamEx; and (4) provide greater detail regarding DreamEx's 
intention to enter into a technology services agreement with MEMX 
Technologies. In Amendment No. 1, DreamEx also proposes to renumber and 
add Exhibit C-3(a) and C-3(b) to provide the Articles of Organization 
and Certificate of Good Standing of DxLLC, and revise Exhibit B-1 to 
add rules regarding the waiver of qualification examinations for

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individuals working for a financial services affiliate of a DreamEx 
member to conform to the rules of another self-regulatory organization.

III. Request for Written Comment

    The Commission requests that interested persons provide written 
views and data with respect to DreamEx's Form 1, as amended by 
Amendment No. 1. Comments may be submitted by any of the following 
methods:

Electronic Comments

    <bullet> Use the Commission's internet comment form (<a href="https://www.sec.gov/rules/other.shtml">https://www.sec.gov/rules/other.shtml</a>); or
    <bullet> Send an email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#aedcdbc2cb83cdc1c3c3cbc0daddeeddcbcd80c9c1d8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="81f3f4ede4ace2eeecece4eff5f2c1f2e4e2afe6eef7">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>. Please include 
file number 010-00248 on the subject line.

Paper Comments

    <bullet> Send paper comments in triplicate to Secretary, Securities 
and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 20549-1090.

All submissions should refer to file number 010-00248. This file number 
should be included on the subject line if email is used. To help the 
Commission process and review your comments more efficiently, please 
use only one method. The Commission will post all comments on the 
Commission's internet website (<a href="https://www.sec.gov/rules/other.shtml">https://www.sec.gov/rules/other.shtml</a>). 
Copies of the submission, all subsequent amendments, all written 
statements with respect to DreamEx's Form 1, as amended by Amendment 
No. 1, filed with the Commission, and all written communications 
relating to the application between the Commission and any person, 
other than those that may be withheld from the public in accordance 
with the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be available for website 
viewing and printing in the Commission's Public Reference Room, 100 F 
Street NE, Washington, DC 20549, on official business days between the 
hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Do not include personal identifiable 
information in submissions; you should submit only information that you 
wish to make available publicly. We may redact in part or withhold 
entirely from publication submitted material that is obscene or subject 
to copyright protection. All submissions should refer to file number 
010-00248 and should be submitted on or before August 4, 2025.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\7\
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    \7\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(71)(ii).
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Sherry R. Haywood,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-13084 Filed 7-11-25; 8:45 am]
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