BlockBeats News, December 27 – As the Trump administration enters its second year in office, the U.S. crypto regulatory landscape is shifting. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have moved from previous jurisdictional disputes to closer collaboration, jointly advancing crypto regulation.
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins is promoting a ‘Token Classification System,’ Project Crypto, and innovative exemption mechanisms, having already approved listing standards for multiple types of crypto ETFs while prioritizing asset tokenization as a regulatory focus.
The CFTC is accelerating rule clarifications through ‘Crypto Sprint’ and, under new Chairman Michael Selig, is expected to play a more central role in regulating crypto commodities like Bitcoin.
Industry observers believe that by 2026, U.S. crypto regulation will take on a dual-track structure: SEC-driven institutional innovation plus CFTC-led market expansion. Former SEC senior attorney Howard Fischer noted that this is the first time in his memory the two agencies are advancing crypto regulation with such a high degree of collaboration and expects this cooperation to dominate the 2026 regulatory agenda.
