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The SEC’s Approach to Digital Assets: Inside “Project Crypto”

SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins outlined the SEC's next step in the digital finance revolution: applying basic fairness and common sense in the application of the federal securities laws to crypto assets and related transactions.
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