U.S. SEC Chair Discusses Clarity Act: Nothing Provides Greater Assurance for the Future Than Enabling Legislation

Golden Finance reports that on April 28, U.S. SEC Chair Atkins spoke about the Clarity Act at the Bitcoin 2026 conference, saying that under the regulations, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has considerable room to operate. We can respond flexibly, but we are constrained by existing authority—an authority that, although it has been revised over the years, is basically still the kind of framework from the 1930s.

That is why a regulation like this is so important: it can protect future development from adverse impacts, and then we can make use of new authorities and the flexibility provided by this act. We can work with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to coordinate and clarify definitions, and build further on that.

But again, emphasizing that nothing provides more assurance for the future than written law—along with good court opinions—which, through the mechanisms of the entire court system, sets the provisions of the statute in stone.

So all of this is very important, but we are focusing on efforts to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and help innovators innovate—so they can act decisively rather than being knocked down by those who are zealously guarding the existing way of doing things out of envy. However, we need to ensure that we are at the very forefront of American innovation.