The US securities regulator is working on an “innovation exemption” to stoke the creation of more onchain products and services, according to Securities and Exchange Commission chair Paul Atkins.
Atkins, a former crypto lobbyist, data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/atkins-remarks-defi-roundtable-060925#:~:text=An%20innovation%20exemption%20could%20help,technologies%20in%20the%20United%20States” title=”null”>said during a Monday crypto roundtable led by the SEC’s crypto task force titled DeFi and the American Spirit that he has directed staff to consider a conditional exemption relief framework.
Exemptions could speed up innovation
These temporary exemptions would relieve firms from specific regulatory requirements to…

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