SEC Elevates Digital Assets To Strategic Priority Through 2030 In Draft Strategic Plan

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) elevated digital assets to a strategic priority through 2030 in a draft Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2026–2030 published Tuesday.

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The plan sets out a dedicated objective for digital assets and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) alongside investor protection and capital formation, and it says the SEC aims to “provide a firm regulatory foundation for digital assets and distributed ledger technologies through a rational, coherent, and principled approach.”

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In the same draft, SEC Chair Paul Atkins’ message says “Blockchain and crypto asset technologies have the potential to revolutionize America’s financial infrastructure.”

The SEC also frames the strategy around the idea that the growth of digital assets has outpaced existing regulations and calls for greater legal certainty for market participants, while highlighting tokenized offerings and on-chain financial infrastructure.

A central element of the SEC’s 2026–2030 roadmap is clarifying jurisdictional boundaries between the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which the draft describes as a longstanding challenge in U.S. digital asset regulation.

Cointelegraph quotes the SEC saying that establishing clear rules for digital assets “also involves clarifying jurisdictional questions between the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission.”

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The SEC and CFTC have already moved toward coordination, with the draft noting that “In March, the SEC and CFTC signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation and information sharing.”

The same SEC-CFTC split is also tied to congressional deliberations over the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, which Cointelegraph says seeks to establish a regulatory framework for digital assets and is expected to expand the CFTC’s authority over large segments of the digital asset market.

Beyond jurisdiction, the SEC’s draft plan emphasizes how custody, trading, and staking services should operate under oversight, aiming to avoid duplicative or conflicting regulatory requirements.

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Cointelegraph says the document references custody, trading and staking services, adding they should be able to operate under appropriate oversight “without duplicative or conflicting regulatory requirements.”

The plan also calls for a framework for staking and on-chain markets as part of its broader goals for capital formation and investor protection, while positioning tokenization and crypto market infrastructure as areas the SEC intends to support.

In parallel, iProUP reports that the SEC’s Cryptoassets Task Force backed Ripple’s view that “the mere speculation about the price of a token” should not be enough for a token to be considered automatically a security under federal laws, and it describes the purchase of a digital asset with an expectation of price increase as an “interés económico pasivo.”