🚨 SEC Chair: The right to self-custody is a 'foundational American value'

💎 At the June 9, 2025 SEC roundtable titled "DeFi and the American Spirit," SEC Chair Paul Atkins emphasized that self-custody of crypto is a "foundational American value." The event, led by Commissioner Hester Peirce, gathered DeFi leaders, academics, and policymakers to explore how regulation can respect decentralization while ensuring transparency and security. Discussions focused on balancing innovation with regulatory clarity, signaling a major shift in U.S. crypto oversight.
🏛️ May 30, 2025: The U.S. SEC just announced a major roundtable — “DeFi and the American Spirit” — set for June 9 in D.C. Led by Commissioner Hester Peirce, the event brings together DeFi innovators, policy experts, and academics to help reshape U.S. crypto regulation.
📍 Why it matters:
This marks a historic pivot from enforcement to engagement, offering the crypto community a real voice in crafting future policy.
💳 15 May - JPMorgan just made history by completing its first public tokenized treasury trade on Ondo Chain, partnering with Ondo Finance & Chainlink. This cross-chain DvP settlement marks a major step for blockchain in traditional finance!
🏛 5 May - The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services:
U.S. House panel unveils draft bill for digital asset market structure!
Rep. Bryan Steil: "The golden age of digital assets is here."
Chairman Hill emphasizes historic bipartisan progress, aiming to protect consumers and ensure market integrity.
📅 The SEC’s Crypto Task Force has set May 12 for a pivotal Roundtable on Tokenization, revealing both agenda and expert panelists. Commissioner Hester Peirce underscores its importance:
“Tokenization is a technological development that could substantially change many aspects of our financial markets.”
This isn't just regulation talk—this is the rewriting of financial DNA.
⚠️ At the same time, AI Czar David Sacks drops a mind-bending forecast:
AI will evolve 1,000,000x in the next 4 years.
With chips, algorithms, and data centers scaling exponentially, tokenization and AI aren’t just trends—they're twin engines of a new global operating system.
🧠 DeFi, AI, and Tokenization are converging. What was once experimental is becoming institutional.