U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Acting Chairman Caroline Pham issued statements on Sept. 2 regarding a coordinated approach to crypto regulation that highlights innovation, competition, and market freedom. Their remarks followed a joint staff statement from the SEC and CFTC clarifying rules for trading spot crypto asset products. The staff statement cited the SEC’s Project Crypto and the CFTC’s Crypto Sprint, both linked to the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets’ effort to strengthen U.S. leadership in digital finance.

Atkins stressed the importance of restoring U.S. competitiveness in the sector: “Today’s joint staff statement represents a significant step forward in bringing innovation in the crypto asset markets back to America.” He added:

Market participants should have the freedom to choose where they trade spot crypto assets.

Pham, in turn, focused on the shift from prior regulatory inconsistency: “Under the prior administration, our agencies sent mixed signals about regulation and compliance in digital asset markets, but the message was clear: innovation was not welcome. That chapter is over.”

Emphasizing that the statement was “the latest demonstration of our mutual objective of supporting growth and development in these markets, but it will not be the last,” she noted:

By working together, we can empower American innovation in these markets and build on President Trump’s collaborative approach to making America the crypto capital of the world.

The joint staff statement itself reinforced these points, noting that the Divisions of the SEC and CFTC are coordinating “to issue guidance regarding the listing of leveraged, margined, or financed spot retail commodity transactions on digital assets” to implement the recommendations of the President’s Working Group. The Divisions added that current law “does not prohibit SEC- or CFTC-registered exchanges from facilitating trading of these spot crypto asset products” and that this coordination is intended to “promote trading venue choice and optionality for market participants within the United States.” While critics caution that the emphasis on innovation could pose investor protection risks, advocates contend that this approach is necessary to keep blockchain development and trading activity within U.S. markets rather than shifting overseas.

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