SEC to Weigh ‘Innovation Exception’ Tied to Crypto, Atkins Says

The Securities and Exchange Commission is weighing an innovation exemption from regulations to incentivize tokenization, Chairman Paul Atkins said, after the US House passed a landmark stablecoin bill earlier Thursday.

“Staff is considering what other changes may be appropriate to incentivize tokenization within our regulatory framework, including an innovation exception that would permit novel ways of trading and more narrowly tailored forms of relief to facilitate the building of other components of a tokenized securities ecosystem,” he said at a press event.

Atkins praised the passage of stablecoin legislation, which is now headed to President Donald Trump, and told ...