SEC Opens a $75 Million Crypto Fundraising Path—and a Way for Tokens to Leave Securities Status

By Isaac • August 22, 2026 11:15 am •

The Securities and Exchange Commission has put something on the table that the American crypto industry has demanded for years: rules built for token projects instead of a forced march through a securities framework written for traditional stocks.

The proposal is called Regulation Crypto Assets. Its headline provision would let qualifying issuers raise as much as $75 million in a 12-month period.

But the most important part may be what happens later. The same package creates a formal route for a crypto asset to separate from the investment contract under which it was originally sold.

That is a major shift. It acknowledges that a token and the promises made by the team selling it are not