SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins has formally launched “Project Crypto” as a joint initiative with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, framing the effort as a generational attempt to harmonize how the two agencies regulate crypto markets as Congress advances bipartisan market structure legislation. Speaking at the CFTC’s headquarters in Washington on Jan. 29, 2026, Atkins positioned the initiative as a response to both political momentum in Congress and the reality that digital asset markets increasingly blur traditional regulatory lines between securities and commodities. “As SEC Chairman, I am grateful to be a ... (full story)