SEC Proposes Reg Crypto Token Fundraising Rules
The proposal moves token fundraising into formal rulemaking, but the industry still wants Congress to pass the Clarity Act.
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The proposal moves token fundraising into formal rulemaking, but the industry still wants Congress to pass the Clarity Act.
Trading infrastructure cleared an existing CFTC pathway in months, while token fundraising awaits an SEC system still being written.
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Beyond the $75M cap, the proposal would pair a conditional safe harbor with narrative disclosures, financial statements and ongoing reporting for larger offerings.
The plan targets the gap between raising capital and building a usable network, giving crypto issuers a proposed route through federal securities laws.
The SEC's framework bets buyers can price disclosed insider risk; the Senate's CLARITY bill forces insiders to stay exposed for at least 12 months. Neither is law yet.
The SEC is putting crypto capital formation on a formal U.S. rulemaking track, making the eventual scope of the framework central to regulatory clarity.
The $75M exemption and safe harbor give crypto issuers their first tiered federal compliance framework; combined with $137M of ETF inflows, the institutional rail is being built out in real time.
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The plan would pair $5M and $75M fundraising exemptions with a safe harbor, offering issuers a federal route while the Clarity Act remains stalled.
The 60-vote threshold on Sept. 15 is a real stress test. Even if Clarity stalls, the SEC and CFTC have telegraphed they'll keep rulemaking without it.
The proposal offers issuers a potential capital-raising route while Congress remains short of a market-structure law, but it still faces a 60-day comment period and months of review.