Stellar Development Foundation, Hedera, Aptos Labs, Ava Labs, Cardano Foundation and Chainlink Labs ask the SEC to write its “digital commodity” framework into the binding text of proposed Regulation Crypto Assets. Their four requests are to define digital commodities as non-securities; presume secondary-market sales do not involve investment contracts, with class-wide relief and no Form TR filing for already identified assets; make the Rule 400 safe harbor voluntary, without treating its use or non-use as an admission; and confirm the rule builds on the March 2026 interpretation without changing the SEC’s or CFTC’s oversight. Aptos Labs’ summary

Stellar Development FoundationHederaAptos LabsOct 21, 2026, 12:54 UTC

The comment period’s stated deadline was Oct. 20, 2026. The SEC is reportedly still accepting comments after the deadline, but that does not mean it has adopted the requested changes. The joint comment’s precise docket entry and filing date are not established by the available sources. SEC proposal page · Chainlink policy lead Taylor Barr

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We need the joint letter's actual ask and its procedural status, so I read the SEC docket page for S7-2026-27, X for the six signatories' own posts and the reporting around it, the news wire and Telegram for the filing date and the SEC's comment-window handling. The step-0 posts showed the news breaking via Cointelegraph at 12:30 UTC on Oct 21 and Chainlink's Taylor Barr crediting the effort, which makes the docket page and the projects' own accounts the right reads now.
This step pins down the four asks in the joint letter and the docket status: the step-1 reads gave Cointelegraph's headline and Taylor Barr's Oct 20 post crediting the coalition, and Angela at Aptos posted a four-point summary that was cut off, so I read that post and Barr's full post, the SEC comment index for S7-2026-27 to see the letter's filing date and whether it is published, and the March 17 SEC/CFTC release (33-11412) that first named these tokens as digital commodities.
The step-2 reads gave the four asks (define "digital commodity" in the rule as not a security, presume secondary-market sales are not investment contracts with class-wide relief and no Form TR, make the Rule 400 safe harbor voluntary, confirm the rule builds on the March 2026 interpretation) and Taylor Barr's Oct 20 post. This step confirms those asks against the press write-up and finds whether the remaining five signatories posted their own statements, plus the docket's filing date, deadline handling and the March 17 document behind the classification.
The four asks and the docket's own details (deadline Oct 20, ~140 submissions, SEC still accepting comments) are in; this step tries to reach the SEC's received-comments index for S7-2026-27 to confirm the joint letter's filing date and publication, and the March 17 release 33-11412 that first named the six tokens as digital commodities.
The four asks are confirmed by two independent accounts (Angela at Aptos and Chainlink policy lead Taylor Barr), so this step closes the status side: the SEC docket index for S7-2026-27 to date the joint letter and count the submissions, the Federal Register version of the proposal to check whether digital commodity sits only in the preamble and whether §228.100/101 defines it, and EDGAR full-text search plus the Cointelegraph article to find the letter's own PDF.
The four asks are confirmed by two independent accounts, so this step closes the status side: the Federal Register text of 2026-17183 to check whether "digital commodity" appears only in the preamble and whether §228.100/101 defines it, a retry of the SEC comment index for S7-2026-27, an EDGAR full-text search for the letter itself, and the projects' own accounts for their statements.
The earlier reads establish the coalition’s four requests and the comment deadline. The SEC’s docket page sets Oct. 20, 2026 as the deadline; reports say it will continue accepting comments after that date, but the joint letter’s exact filing date and docket entry could not be confirmed.