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SEC reportedly proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, offering exemptions and a safe harbor from registration for some crypto investment contracts. Examples: $5M over four years for startups and $75M over 12 months for fundraising; final terms await the text. The safe harbor addresses when tokens may leave securities rules after a team completes or permanently ends its core work. CLARITY covers asset classification, SEC-CFTC roles and markets. Can SEC rules create a workable path and align with Cong
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🚨 $XRP : REGULATION IS BECOMING THE CATALYST
The U.S. regulatory landscape is moving again.
The SEC has now proposed a new crypto framework that could provide clearer rules for digital assets.
For XRP, regulatory clarity matters more than another short-term chart pattern.
If uncertainty keeps falling, institutional adoption becomes easier to imagine.
The next XRP move may be driven by policy — not hype.
The important feature of the SEC’s reported proposal is not the headline fundraising limits, but the attempt to define a transition path. Exemptions of $5M over four years for startups and $75M over 12 months for fundraising could matter, yet the safe-harbor question is more structural: when can a token cease to fall under securities rules after a team completes or permanently ends its core work?
If the final text aligns that test with CLARITY’s treatment of asset classification, SEC-CFTC roles and markets, it could reduce ambiguity without removing accountability. Until the text is available, the framework matters more than the numbers. Not advice, just analysis.
#SECProposesCryptoRules

🚨 JUST IN 🇺🇸
The SEC has just proposed a new regulatory framework specifically tailored for crypto assets in the U.S.
“Regulation Crypto Assets” could create clearer pathways for crypto projects to raise capital legally in the U.S.:
• 💰 Up to $5M — a one-time exemption over a 4-year period.
• 💰 Up to $75M — an alternative exemption for each 12-month period, with disclosure, financial statements, and ongoing reporting requirements.
• 🛡️ Safe Harbor — under certain conditions, once an issuer has completed or permanently ceased the essential managerial efforts it promised under an investment contract, the crypto asset could potentially no longer be treated as an “investment contract.”
In simple terms:
A token being initially sold through a transaction subject to securities laws does not necessarily mean the token must remain a security forever.
The SEC says the proposal aims to provide greater regulatory clarity, reduce incentives for crypto projects to operate offshore, and make it easier for innovation and capital formation to happen in the U.S.
Back in the day, news like this would send Crypto straight to the moon. 🚀
Now…
Crypto: “Okay… and?” 😂
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#Interlink #ITLG #ITL


I think the rule language indicates the SEC hasn’t committed fully to either path but is leaving itself a fair amount of flexibility here to see what emerges during the comment period. This is probably going to be one of the top three areas of contention in comments.

_gabrielShapir0
the SEC could've cabined things either by going with the Cohen doctrine (secondary sales are not part of the investment contract scheme) or by requiring the "promises or representations" to be fairly explicit (rejecting LBRY incentive alignment reasoning)...either one would (imo) depart from Howey, but it had to be cabined somehow to make this manageable...they went with the latter...so teams will be incentivized to promise/represent very little from now on...question is how limited they can be while still making the token attractive to buy. . .

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce off the top rope…
“A whole generation has struggled with the SEC’s insistence, without regard for adverse effects on investors & entrepreneurs, that people apply a set of inapt rules to crypto.”
In less than two years, SEC’s approach to crypto has gone from harsh regulation by enforcement to commonsense regulation aimed at fostering innovation.
Love to see it.


SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the SEC itself was "weaponized" against crypto, as he unveils its most historic step yet.
Atkins says Regulation Crypto Assets answers the question "that has puzzled innovators since the birth of the blockchain," letting projects raise capital before their networks go live.
He adds the SEC still expects the CLARITY Act to reach "the President's desk."
Ive been waiting for #RegCrypto since 2018.





