SEC Chair Paul Atkins Floats ‘Safe Harbor’ Exemptions for Crypto

The SEC just gave crypto its biggest regulatory green light in years.Chair Paul Atkins floated a safe harbor exemption on March 18 that lets crypto projects operate without immediate securities registration. It is a direct reversal of the regulation by enforcement era that suffocated US-based development for years.Token projects now have a compliant runway to decentralize without the threat of an SEC lawsuit hanging …