X spent the latter half of the week digesting SEC Chair Paul Atkins’s April 21 Economic Club of Washington keynote as a regime change.

“SEC Chair Paul Atkins unveiled ‘Project Crypto’, a formal token taxonomy co-developed with the CFTC that classifies when digital assets qualify as securities, with a forthcoming ‘innovation exemption’ for on-chain trading of tokenized securities,”

a user wrote on April 24, summarizing the speech. The post racked up engagement as commentators digested the chair’s commitment to a signed SEC-CFTC memorandum of understanding. Bitcoin was trading near $77,586 as of Saturday, April 25, recovering from a brutal selloff that bottomed close to $60,000 in February from late-2025 highs above $100,000. The…