The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trade Commission are hosting a joint roundtable on regulatory harmony of digital assets, streamed on Sec.gov, from 1pm to 5:30pm ET.
opening remarks Coming from SEC Chair Paul S. Atkins and CFTC acting chair Caroline D. Fam, the closing remarks and agenda from SEC Commissioner Hester M. Perth bring executives from the InterContinental Exchange, CME Group and Nasdaq along with Kraken, Polymeruk and Karshi.
In a joint statement earlier this month, Atkins and Fam framed the effort as a move to clarify to the market, saying, “It’s a new day at the SEC and CFTC, and today we’re embarking on the long-awaited journey to provide the market with the clarity they deserve.”
This session places a long-term boundary between securities and goods under a single camera feed. This is important about where assets can be traded, where disclosures apply, and how monitoring is adjusted.
According to the SEC Agenda, the discussion is an initiative to block the heart of jurisdiction testing, listings and exchange oversight, and to get an initiative to get comments on the use of margins in derivative markets last week, an initiative to show that Salateral Policy is part of today’s conversation.
Practical Stakes
First, the scope of the securities test for exchange-selling digital assets and whether standardized listings and disclosure templates can expand beyond Bitcoin and ether. Panelists look into the template and re-enter the country via CFTC license exchange acquisition, and Clearinghouse offers proven examples of how the forecast market operates under federal oversight, subject to location restrictions, reporting and KYC controls.
Immediate results
The flow and market structure bring immediate results to the roundtable. The US Spot Bitcoin ETF continues to draw or drop hundreds of millions of dollars per day, providing a high-frequency barometer for regulated demand.
For each far side investor, net flow swings were led by the largest amount of funds this month, from modest outflows to large daily inflows across the cohort.
If the SEC and CFTC converge on the template and monitoring expectations of the list, the next wave of products will move beyond the single asset ETF to basket or sector exposure, and the registered exchange may process the underlying cash transactions.
This redirects liquidity to venues with monitoring and clear disclosure obligations, strengthening the relationship between ETF primary markets, reference pricing and cash market integrity.
The Stablecoin policy is a hinge of collateral and settlement. Defillama’s dashboard shows the total market for the Stablecoin market, which is close to the high $280-$290 billion band in September, and will change as issuer stocks reset and regulatory regimes evolve.
CFTC’s request for comments on tokenized collateral could provide a cash-confined free balance sheet, if guidance on recognizing high-quality stable coins in margins, and could increase capital efficiency for futures committee merchants and clear members.
Because margin policies determine the risks that capital companies can deploy at a specific volatility level, margin policies determine whether tokenized incidental movements between custody, liquidation, and settlement without manual breaks.
The forecast market tests how institutions draw a line between protected speech, event risk transfer and gambling laws. The agenda includes Polymarket and Kalshi. This gives the committee a platform to discuss contract categories, event definitions, election-related guardrails, and operational monitoring standards.
Following the SEC agenda, the format is designed to map actual monitoring questions to existing statutory tools rather than publishing new rules on-site. The value of readers is in the direction of travelling through these categories.
How far will the template and adjustment go?
A template-driven approach of lists, coupled with CFTC recognition for specific tokenized collateral, increases the regulated market share of spots and derivatives, while also formalizing spot market mandates by leaving room for state or federal law.
The limited results of ETF approvals exceeding exchange permits maintain flow to fund pullers that rely on robust cash market reference prices and both sides > roundtable pages.
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