SEC Chair Paul Atkins Signals Crypto-Friendly Shift, Says Few Tokens Are Securities
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins has signaled a marked departure from the agency’s prior stance on digital assets, telling attendees at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium that only a “very few” tokens should be classified as securities.
Atkins emphasized that the token itself is “probably not” a security, clarifying that classification depends on how the asset is packaged and marketed. “There are very few, in my mind, tokens that are securities, but it depends on what’s the package around it and how that’s being sold,” he said.
The comments follow the SEC’s rollout of Project Crypto last month, an initiative Atkins described as a bid to modernize securities laws and help U.S….
