Atkins Pushes Crypto Regulation After CLARITY Act Setback
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SEC Chairman Paul Atkins is maintaining his push for a comprehensive U.S. digital-asset regulatory framework even as the CLARITY Act has encountered a legislative setback, signaling that the SEC intends to advance crypto oversight through regulatory channels regardless of congressional progress on market-structure legislation. Atkins, who took over the SEC chairmanship with an explicit mandate to clarify the agency’s stance toward digital assets, has publicly framed comprehensive crypto regulation as a priority that the SEC can pursue through its own rulemaking authority, per remarks published on the SEC’s official newsroom .
Source: Coincu
