SEC

The SEC sets the regulatory tone for every crypto company that touches US markets, and its enforcement actions have shaped the industry more than any single piece of legislation passed in the last decade. The coverage here tracks what matters: enforcement actions against exchanges, token issuers, lending platforms, and DeFi protocols, the chair and commissioner decisions that determine policy direction quarter to quarter, court rulings in cases like Ripple, Coinbase, and Binance that set precedent for everyone else, ETF approvals and rejections across spot and futures products for BTC, ETH, and the next wave of altcoin filings, rulemaking and comment periods on custody, broker-dealer registration, and market structure, and the congressional pressure that increasingly pushes back on enforcement-heavy approaches. The agency’s posture shifts with administrations. Personnel matters. Enforcement priorities shift when chairs change. Coinliva covers the cases that move markets, the testimony that signals where policy is heading, the rulemaking that defines what counts as a security, and the broader political fight over whether crypto regulation should sit primarily with the SEC, the CFTC, or somewhere new entirely.

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SEC's 'Reg Crypto' Is One Step From Publication. Here Is What the Proposal Actually Contains.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins confirmed on April 6, 2026 that 'Regulation Crypto Assets' is at OIRA — the White House's regulatory review office — awaiting sign-off before public comment opens. The proposal creates three safe-harbor pathways, reclassifies most crypto assets as non-securities, and introduces the first structured fundraising framework for blockchain startups under U.S. federal law.

By Jan Kara