Earlier this week, a post on X made it sound like the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Paul Atkins, was predicting that every U.S. market would be on chain within two years. That isn’t exactly what he said. In an interview on Fox Business, Atkins explained that tokenization doesn’t need a decade to go mainstream. He said it could happen “in a lot less time” and added that “maybe a couple of years from now” was possible. That’s not as bold as saying it will happen in two years. But coming from someone who helps oversee the entire U.S. financial system, it was still unusually direct. Regulators ... (full story)