Franklin Templeton asks SEC staff whether on-chain fund trades need 1940 Act pricing exemptions
Franklin Templeton, a $1.79 trillion manager, asked SEC crypto staff on Oct. 9 whether exemptions could let tokenized money funds and ETFs trade in blockchain pools. Its questions concern the 1940 Act's rules on fund pricing and pooled assets, which sit outside the SEC's Sept. 17 relief for blockchain venues.
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, head of the agency's Crypto Task Force, resigns Oct. 2, leaving Paul Atkins and Mark Uyeda as its only two commissioners. Neither her seat nor Caroline Crenshaw's has a nominee, so crypto policy now rests on two Republican votes.
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Hester Peirce exits the SEC on October 2, cutting it to two Republican commissioners with seven seats empty across the SEC and CFTC. Crypto Briefing warns that one recusal could then leave the commission short of a quorum on crypto and market rules.
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a16z and the DeFi Education Fund ask Peirce to exempt DEXs that clear four tests
The joint letter to SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce defines a qualifying decentralized exchange by four tests, three of them checkable against deployed code and the fourth a judgement about who holds discretionary privileges.
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- Hype gap+22
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The order carves out a new category called a tokenized securities venue, caps how many symbols and how much volume it can trade, and requires public smart contracts while the Commission drafts permanent rules.
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The SEC cut crypto's legal risk using instruments the next chair can withdraw
An enforcement retreat, a rescinded custody bulletin and a fresh rulemaking improve the arithmetic for US digital-asset firms. None of it needed Congress, and none of it binds a successor.
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- Evidence34
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives72
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A trade group's litigation threat, not crypto's critics, stalled the SEC's token fundraising rules
The SEC killed its Regulation Crypto Assets meeting three days after calling it. Sources point to the White House, and to SIFMA weighing a challenge to the agency's authority.
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- Hype gap+32
- Incentives74
- Confidence44