Key Senate Democrat wants U.S. crypto bill to move, and SEC chief reveals danger of defeat

Senator Mark Warner, a leading Democratic negotiator on the market structure bill, said he wants it to pass, and SEC chief Paul Atkins said durable policy actually requires it. What to know : In a U.S. Senate Banking Committee hearing today, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins said that making crypto policies permanent really demands legislation, despite the authorities he said his agency has to write rules that will work in the interim. Though progress has moved in fits and starts on the U.S. Senate bill to govern crypto market structure, one of the top negotiators on the Democrats' side, Senator Mark Warner, said during the hearing that he still wants the effort to advance.