The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) canceled its planned August 14 open meeting on crypto rulemaking one day before the vote was due, delaying consideration of a proposal widely referred to as Regulation Crypto. The three-member commission had been expected to decide whether to formally propose a tailored offering regime for certain crypto investment contracts, including registration exemptions and a safe harbor (temporary compliance protection) that could allow some projects to raise funds without completing the SEC’s full securities-registration process. The SEC said the meeting was moved because of an unforeseen scheduling issue and would be rescheduled later, but it has not announced a replacement date. The postponement pushes back what would have been the agency’s first formal, SEC-led crypto-specific rulemaking step, which would only have opened a public comment period rather than finalized the framework. The delay comes after the Senate failed to advance a cloture vote on the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act before its August recess, and just ahead of a separate crypto-focused meeting at the CFTC (U.S. derivatives regulator), underscoring how uneven the pace of U.S. agency and legislative action on digital-asset policy remains.