The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins has emphasized the importance of cooperation with the crypto industry over confrontation. The first episode of the SEC's first official podcast, Material Matters, featured Commissioners Mark Uyeda and Hester Peirce, who argued that the U.S. should be a place where people want to innovate and hailed this as a "very important inflection point in American markets". The agency has implemented several policy shifts under Atkins, including guidance that most crypto assets are not securities and the closure or dismissal of cases against crypto firms like Ripple, Coinbase, Binance, and others. However, experts question whether these words will translate into effective policy.