SEC Crypto Agenda: Startup Funding as Policy Catalyst
The post SEC Crypto Agenda: Startup Funding as Policy Catalyst appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. It started with a dry-looking SEC filing and turned into a clarifying week for policy nerds. On June 30, the Commission posted Release No. 33-11426, a 27-question call for comments on “Novel ETFs” with a 60‑day window that explicitly touches crypto-asset funds, tokenized assets, prediction markets, and leverage. You don’t publish that unless you’re testing the water for rulemaking. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Release No. 33-11426). Then came July 2, and two live shots across the bow. Ondo Finance shipped custodial, SEC-aligned tokenized versions of BlackRock’s IVV and Micron shares on Ethereum, riffing on staff guidance from January. CoinPaprika (reporting Ondo/PR Newswire). That same day Securitize rang the bell on the NYSE via a SPAC and said its own shares would trade in tokenized form on public chains, with reports citing about $295 million tokenized. CryptoNews (reporti