Atkins Details Plans for New Crypto Rules

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Paul Atkins offered the most detailed outline yet of his crypto agenda, stressing that the SEC must “provide flexibility” so token issuers, brokers and trading platforms can comply with the securities laws. But the chairman also expressed a strong preference for enshrining much of the new regulatory framework in formal rules – a process that he acknowle…