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Trump's two top market regulators launch joint 'Project Crypto'

Betting Goes LegalEasing Up on Crypto

Filed January 2026

★ The Brief

What happened

On January 29, 2026, the heads of the two federal agencies that oversee U.S. markets — SEC Chair Paul Atkins and Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig — announced they would jointly pursue "Project Crypto," an SEC initiative to build a single, coordinated regulatory framework for the digital-asset industry. The joint effort signals that both market regulators intend to write crypto rules cooperatively under the Trump administration.

Who enabled it

Michael SeligPaul AtkinsCommodity Futures Trading CommissionSecurities and Exchange Commission

Who benefits

Deal or steal?

The two officials who will write the digital-asset rulebook — SEC Chair Paul Atkins and the commodities regulator's Michael Selig — are both Trump appointees, giving the president direct sway over the framework's shape. And the Trump family is no bystander to that industry: it has launched its own crypto platform and a $TRUMP memecoin, and a UAE state fund routed a $2 billion deal through the family's stablecoin — handing the venture a revenue stream analysts valued at tens of millions of dollars a year.

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During a joint public discussion on January 29, 2026, CFTC Chairman Michael Selig and SEC Chair Paul Atkins announced that the two agencies would jointly pursue 'Project Crypto,' an SEC initiative to develop a coordinated regulatory framework for the digital assets industry. The announcement signals inter-agency cooperation on crypto regulation under the Trump administration.

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