The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission host a joint roundtable on regulatory harmonization for digital assets today from 1 to 5:30 P.M. ET, streamed on SEC.gov.

Opening remarks will come from SEC Chair Paul S. Atkins and CFTC Acting Chair Caroline D. Pham, with closing remarks from SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce, and the agenda brings executives from Intercontinental Exchange, CME Group, and Nasdaq together with Kraken, Polymarket, and Kalshi.

In a joint statement earlier this month, Atkins and Pham framed the effort as a move to give markets clarity, saying, “It is a new day at the SEC and the CFTC, and today we begin a long-awaited journey to provide markets the clarity they deserve.”

The session places the long-contested boundary between securities and commodities under a single camera feed, which matters for where assets can trade, which disclosures apply, and how surveillance is coordinated.

According to the SEC’s agenda, discussion blocks center on jurisdictional tests, listings and exchange supervision, with time reserved for public market plumbing such as data-sharing and surveillance cooperation.

At the same time, the CFTC is moving on tokenized collateral, announcing last week an initiative to take comments on the use of stablecoins and other tokenized assets for margin in derivatives markets, a signal that collateral policy will be part of today’s conversation.

The practical stakes

First, the scope of the securities test for exchange-traded digital assets and whether standardized listing and disclosure templates c

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Author: Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright