U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins recently reiterated his commitment to "Project Crypto" and announced a collaboration with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to develop a digital asset classification framework, clarifying when tokens are classified as securities. He also announced an "innovation exemption" to support on-chain trading of tokenized securities. The market believes that Atkins's initiatives represent one of the most proactive shifts in SEC regulation in history, marking a formal abandonment of the old "enforcement over regulation" model in favor of clear rule-making. This move could signal stronger entry for long-term institutional investors and potentially push Bitcoin's price back above $80,000. Currently, Bitcoin is priced at approximately $77,586, and the market is closely watching Atkins's further statements at the Bitcoin 2026 conference in late April. (Forbes)