WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 22: U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins during Atkins’ swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office at the White House on April 22, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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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…