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Crypto has a funny way of surprising you. The sector will do nothing for months, only ever stealing a headline if it’s bad news. If you need an example, look up Michael Saylor’s recent implosion at Strategy.
Then good news starts trickling in: an announcement from the Treasury about doubling “liquidity support,” UBS increasing its exposure to BlackRock’s IBIT ETF by 230%, and the SEC, chaired by a guy who used to be the co-chair of the “Token Alliance,” proposing a bullish new rule for the sector.
WHAT HAPPENED
This week, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Chairman Paul S. Atkins announced the “most historic step yet” to modernize federal securities regulation for crypto assets, specifically making it easier for crypto projects to raise capital in the U.S.
<a href="https://xpertsstudio.com/us-debt-tops-40t-stoking-debate-on-what-it-means-for-bitcoin/” title=”US debt tops $40T stoking debate on what it means for Bitcoin”>Bitcoin and various crypto-adjacent companies like Coinbase and Circle all rose on the news.
Atkins’s new proposed rule, titled “Regulation Crypto Assets,” follows up on the SEC’s check-in with the general crypto sector from March. It’s an effort to let them know they weren’t sitting on their hands. These still-theoretical tools for big and small crypto companies and early, eager pre-sale investors create a structure for these two parties to really make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the world.”
Before, most went overseas. They also don’t have to go through the kind of paperwork a company does for an IPO, as long as they follow the SEC’s new requirements or “exemptions.”
A project can raise $5 million one time and is responsible only for making certain “principles-based narrative disclosures available to their investors.” In other words, a pitch deck. This is Exemption One. Exemption Two allows up to $75 million in any rolling 12-month period provided the issuer also supplies “financial statements” and remains “subject to ongoing reporting requirements.” Under Exemption Two, a project can continue to raise $75 million a year without ever having to formally register with the SEC under the Securities Act of 1933.
And by the way, the SEC isn’t providing any centralized platform to do any of this.
It’s all on the project and the private investors, as they explicitly state, “…issuers would be required to make certain principles-based narrative disclosures available to their investors.”
WHY IT MATTERS
The SEC is doing all of this for two reasons: first, to give projects a shortcut through the paperwork, which is still technically a security, just never forced into full registration. Most of all it’s about raising money, which should kick-start crypto businesses and capital into high gear.
Source: finance.yahoo.com