Key Takeaways: SEC Chair Paul Atkins is set to address the attendees of Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas on April 27. Atkins has outlined a five-category crypto asset taxonomy under Project Crypto, four of which are classified as non-securities. The SEC’s ACT strategy marks a formal departure from more than a decade of regulation by…
A committee that advises the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recommended the agency move forward on a tokenized-securities policy that would allow traders to cut out the kind of go-between settlement that Wall Street investment firms have relied on for decades. The SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee voted Thursday to recommend narrow exemptions for the blockchain-based innovation…
The U.S. markets regulators are melding their operations in the places where the duties of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) overlap, and building a crypto oversight framework is listed among the core aims of a written agreement released on Wednesday. Most of the objectives of the memorandum…