• SEC Chair Paul Atkins is set to address the attendees of Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas on April 27.
• Atkins has outlined a five-category crypto asset taxonomy under Project Crypto, four of which are classified as non-securities.
• The SEC’s ACT strategy marks a formal departure from more than a decade of regulation by enforcement in the digital assets space.

No sitting Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair has previously appeared at the annual Bitcoin conference, which is set to draw more than 40,000 participants this year to the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. Atkins’ decision to attend potentially signals the degree to which bitcoin has moved from the regulatory periphery to the center of U.S. financial policy.

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The backdrop is a series of regulatory actions that represent the most substantive shift in U.S. crypto policy in over a decade. In April, the SEC published a digital asset taxonomy distinguishing five categories of crypto assets, with four of the five falling outside the definition of securities under federal law. The agency has also proposed an innovation exemption giving market participants a defined, compliant pathway to begin facilitating tokenized securities trading onchain.

Speaking at The Economic Club of Washington on April 21, Atkins stated the agency “will not stand idly by and watch innovations develop overseas while our capital markets remain stagnant,” framing the regulatory reset explicitly as a matter of competitive necessity for the U.S.

The SEC’s overarching framework, referred to as the ACT strategy, stands for Advance, Clarify, and Transform. Under Atkins, the agency launched Project Crypto, a Commission-wide initiative to modernize securities rules and provide clear guidance on token issuance, custody standards, and trading oversight.

The pivot away from enforcement-led policy has been broadly welcomed across the U.S. industry. For more than a decade, market participants operated without clear guidance on when a digital asset triggered federal securities law obligations. Atkins has described that period of ambiguity as over, stating at the March DC Blockchain Summit that “the SEC’s persistent failure to provide clarity on this question is over.”

His appearance at Bitcoin 2026 alongside Senator Cynthia Lummis, Michael Saylor, Arthur Hayes, and Jack Dorsey marks the most visible convergence yet of regulatory and industry leadership at a bitcoin-focused event.

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