SEC · CLARITY Act · U.S. · CryptoSlate
How the SEC’s five-year plan could accelerate tokenized capital markets
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The agency that spent the better part of a decade defining crypto policy through enforcement has published a five-year plan describing blockchain as a technology with “the potential to revolutionize America's financial infrastructure.”
Key facts
- The CLARITY Act, which passed the House 294-134 in July 2025 and cleared the Senate Banking Committee 15-9 in May, was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar at the start of June
- Bitcoin is +0.57% over the past 24 hours and currently sits at rank # 1 by market cap
- The SEC's draft Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 dedicates a standalone objective to digital assets and blockchain technology, placing the category alongside investor protection
- Two days later, Jamie Selway, director of the SEC's Division of Trading and Markets, told the Piper Sandler Global Exchange & Fintech Conference in New York that his division is developing
Summary
01 The SEC’s draft five-year plan adds digital assets and blockchain as a standalone objective, framing them as financial infrastructure. 02 That shift matters because institutional capital often waits for regulatory certainty, and a roadmap can move approvals before new rules. 03 The unresolved issue is whether the SEC-CFTC harmonization and CLARITY Act will follow, locking tokenized markets into statute. The agency that spent the better part of a decade defining crypto policy through enforcement has published a five-year plan describing blockchain as a technology with “the potential to revolutionize America's financial infrastructure.” The SEC's draft Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 dedicates a standalone objective to digital assets and blockchain technology, placing the category alongside investor protection, capital formation, and agency modernization.