Update (25 August 2026): After cancelling this meeting, the SEC issued the proposal on 18 August 2026. See our full coverage: SEC proposes Regulation Crypto Assets, a tailored securities regime for token fundraising. The report below records the 13 August meeting cancellation as it stood at the time.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has cancelled the open meeting at which it was to consider proposing a new set of rules for crypto asset offerings. The cancellation is recorded in a Sunshine Act notice from the SEC’s Office of the Secretary, dated 13 August 2026, which states: “The Open Meeting scheduled for Friday, August 14, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. has been cancelled.”
The meeting had a single item on its agenda. According to the original Sunshine Act notice issued on 10 August 2026, the Commission was to consider “whether to issue a release proposing new rules to create a tailored offering regime for certain investment contracts involving crypto assets.”
Nothing was withdrawn
It is worth being precise about what has and has not happened. No rule and no proposal has been pulled, because none had been issued. The Commission had not published a proposed release; the 14 August meeting was the step at which it would have decided whether to propose one. Cancelling the meeting removes that decision point from the calendar; it does not reverse or rescind anything, because nothing was on the books to reverse.
No new date, no stated reason
The cancellation notice does not set a rescheduled date, and it gives no reason for pulling the meeting. It records only that the previously scheduled open meeting will not take place. The cancellation notice itself set no timetable for when the Commission would return to the proposal. In the event, the SEC issued that tailored offering regime, Regulation Crypto Assets, on 18 August 2026.
Why it matters
The cancelled meeting would have been the Commission’s first formal move toward a purpose-built framework for offerings of “certain investment contracts involving crypto assets”, the kind of tailored regime market participants have long asked for in place of case-by-case enforcement.
At the time of the cancellation, that step had no new date attached. The Commission went on to issue the proposal, Regulation Crypto Assets, on 18 August 2026, and it is now open for public comment. The two Sunshine Act notices remain the official record of the 13 August cancellation itself.
