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The White House warned the proposal could disrupt CLARITY Act negotiations, and SIFMA lobbied against the parallel tokenisation exemption that was due to launch alongside it.
Approval opens a comment period on Paul Atkins's three-track proposal: a startup exemption, a fundraising exemption, and a safe harbor that ends investment-contract treatment once network development is complete. Compliance-relevant adoption is a 2027 story.
The SEC's newly updated regulatory agenda places its long-promised safe-harbor rule in the July slot, the strongest signal yet that Paul Atkins will finally move from speeches to a formal proposal. Once filed, Regulation Crypto would be the first crypto-specific rulemaking of his chairmanship.
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins has sent a sweeping crypto rulemaking package to the White House for final review, proposing startup exemptions, fundraising thresholds, and a safe harbour that could let some tokens escape the securities label entirely.
