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Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, is asking US lawmakers and regulators to clearly define how digital assets are categorized.
During his company’s second-quarter earnings call on July 31, he stressed the need for clear rules that explain what counts as a digital security or commodity, and when it is legal to turn a security into a token.
Saylor said during the call, "My opinion is it would be beneficial to the market if they nail down the digital assets taxonomy".
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He added, "Under what circumstances can you tokenize a security? What is digital security? If they can clarify a digital commodity, what is an asset without an issuer versus a digital token?"
Saylor warned that without clearer definitions, confusion will remain about who can issue which assets.
He gave an example of what simpler rules could make possible:
In the ideal world, 40,000,000 businesses would be able to issue a token in four hours for $40.
On July 30, a White House group focused on digital asset markets urged federal agencies to speed up work on rules for custody, trading, and record-keeping.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins noted on July 31 that many companies building token-based systems are doing so outside the US due to the current regulatory environment. He said, "Companies are lined up at our doors with requests to tokenize".
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