The president of the US SEC, Paul Atkins, said the time has come for the crypto, committing to modernize the Book of Rules of Ee. UU. And expand the “Crypto Project” to take markets in the chain.
Speaking in Paris on September 10 at the Round Table inaugural OECD in global financial markets, Atkins said the SEC is moving away from the formulation of policies promoted by the application and will provide clear rules for tokens, custody and commercial platforms. “The policy will no longer be established by ad hoc compliance actions,” he said, qualifying the new approach “a golden age of financial innovation in the American soil.”
Atkins said that most tokens are not values and promised brilliant line rules to determine when cryptographic assets fall into the supervision of the SEC. He said that entrepreneurs must be able to raise capital in the chain without “endless legal uncertainty” and promised a framework for platforms that make up trade, loans and bets under a single license. Custody rules will also be updated to allow multiple options for investors and intermediaries.
The president of the SEC said that Project Crypto would clear the way for tokenized values, the new classes of assets in the chain and the decentralized finance software, while guaranteeing the protections of investors. He also highlighted the potential of “super applications” commercial platforms and emphasized the importance of maintaining innovation in the United States.
Atkins first presented the Crypto project on July 31, 2025, in Washington, framing it as the “North Star” of the SEC to support the objective of President Trump to make the United States the world’s cryptographic center. His comments from Paris expanded on that agenda, describing more details about custody, capital formation and platform rules.
Atkins’ comments occurred two days after Nasdaq’s president, Tal Cohen, published on LinkedIn that tokenization is an “extraordinary opportunity” for global markets. Cohen said that Nasdaq had presented to the SEC to allow the trade of tokenized values, which underlines how the main institutions are moving towards the adoption of Blockchain.
Beyond Crypto, Atkins went to the lists of foreign companies, accounting standards and European regulation. He followed concerns about “double materiality” in EU’s reports, urged stable funds for the IASB, and said the SEC can visit its 2007 decision again to allow IFRS without reconciliation with the US PCGA. UU. If financing problems persist.
The president of the SEC also highlighted artificial intelligence as a force that could mainly remodel financial markets. He described a change towards “agent financing”, where autonomous systems could execute operations, assign capital and manage risk at speeds that no human can match, with compliance directly in their code.
These systems, he said, could deliver faster and more cheaper markets while they open advanced strategies to a broader set of investors. Together with Blockchain infrastructure, these tools could empower people, increase competition and unlock new growth.
Atkins warned, however, that regulators must provide “common sense railings” without reacting exaggeratedly for fear. He argued that chain capital markets and Finance promoted by AI are on the horizon, and that the United States must choose leadership to ensure that the next generation of financial innovation is rooted in the home.
Atkins concluded by saying that regulators must achieve a balance between innovation and investor protection. “The time has come for cryptography,” he said, adding that US markets should lead the next wave of financial innovation instead of seeing him develop abroad.
