BlockBeats News, February 25: According to an SEC meeting memorandum disclosed today, on February 20, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Cryptocurrency Special Action Group met with representatives from Fidelity Investments. The Fidelity representative submitted attached documents and discussed the following topics during the meeting:
- The applicability of customer protection rules to the interaction between brokers and digital asset securities, discussing brokers' customer asset segregation and custody requirements in digital asset securities trading;
- Standardized listing rules for Digital Asset Exchange-Traded Products (ETPs) to promote a standardized framework for the issuance and listing of digital asset ETPs;
- Clarification of the asset pledging mechanism for fund sponsors, defining the compliance path and operational norms for funds when pledging encrypted assets;
- The accounting treatment of blockchain-based tokens and financial instrument-related rewards, discussing regulatory approaches to recognizing on-chain incentives such as staking rewards and liquidity mining rewards.