By Neil Roland ( July 31, 2025, 22:14 GMT | Insight) -- A day after President Donald Trump's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets unveiled a roadmap for industry-friendly cryptocurrency policies, US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins disclosed a raft of related rule changes he is planning. Project Crypto, as Atkins has dubbed it, "will help ensure that the United States remains the best place in the world to start a business, develop cutting-edge technologies, and participate in capital markets," he said. In a speech, Atkins said he has directed staff “to draft clear and simple rules of the road for crypto asset distributions, custody, and trading.”A day after President Donald Trump's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets unveiled a roadmap for industry-friendly cryptocurrency policies, US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins disclosed a raft of related rule changes he is planning....
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