The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has canceled an open meeting that was expected to start the agency's first major crypto rulemaking push under its new digital asset agenda.

The meeting had been scheduled for Friday, August 14, at 10:00 a.m. ET. In its original Sunshine Act notice, the SEC said commissioners would consider whether to issue a release proposing new rules to create "a tailored offering regime for certain investment contracts involving crypto assets."

That agenda item was widely read as the formal start of Regulation Crypto, a framework SEC Chair Paul Atkins has described as part of a shift away from case-by-case guidance and enforcement toward a more durable rulemaking process.

The cancellation notice, dated August 13, says only that the previously announced open meeting "has been cancelled." It cites the original Federal Register notice and does not list a replacement date or a revised timetable for the proposal.

The immediate effect is procedural, not substantive: the SEC has not rejected the proposal or published the text that would have been considered. But the delay matters because a public rule proposal would open the comment process and give issuers, exchanges, lawyers, and investors a clearer look at how the agency wants to treat crypto asset offerings that may involve investment contracts.

Until that release appears, the verified news is narrower: the SEC had placed the proposal on a public agenda, then pulled the meeting before commissioners voted on whether to issue it.