SEC Launches 'Project Crypto' to Bring TradFi On-Chain
The SEC launched 'Project Crypto,' a formal initiative aimed at moving traditional finance infrastructure onto blockchain rails. The project represents a direct regulatory effort to facilitate on-chain migration of TradFi systems.
Project Crypto: the SEC just told most tokens they're not stocks
The single most consequential line in Project Crypto isn't about blockchain rails or modernised disclosure rules. It's the SEC's position that most digital assets should not be classified as securities.
That one sentence dissolves the legal threat that has paralysed US crypto for years. Every token project that feared an enforcement action for selling an unregistered security now has a path out of the grey zone.
The catch: this is still a proposal steered by a Trump-aligned chairman, timed to a political agenda. What Atkins writes, a future SEC can unwrite. The institutional architecture gets built on these rules — custody frameworks, pension allocations, CFTC cross-registration — but the foundation is regulatory, not legislative. That's fragile in ways the excitement tends to obscure.
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