Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has heaped praise on the current U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins.
He has compared the current regulatory environment under SEC Chair Paul Atkins with the hostile regime of his predecessor, Gary Gensler.
The Ripple executive praised Atkins as a "model of what leadership at the SEC should look like."
HOT Stories 'Breath of Fresh Air and Sanity': Ripple CEO Heaps Praise on New SEC Head XRP Might Not Hit $2 Now Because of This, Will Hyperliquid (HYPE) Hit $50 on Next Run? Ethereum's (ETH) Time to Shine: Crypto Market Review
"The SEC’s first mission is to protect investors. Under Gary Gensler, the SEC clearly lost its way," Garlinghouse stated. "He declared war on a technology... It was an unlawful power grab...and the courts said as much."
You Might Also Like
Sat, 04/18/2026 - 14:32 Ripple Proclaims New Institutional Era for XRP ByDan Burgin
Garlinghouse concluded his statement by calling Atkins "a breath of fresh air and sanity."
Bitter rivalry
The effusive praise for Atkins comes after Garlinghouse spent years chastizing the former SEC boss Gensler.
During Gensler's rather tumultuous tenure, Ripple was enmeshed in a multi-year legal battle with the SEC over the status of its XRP token, which was initially started by Chairman Clayton.
As reported by U.Today, the Ripple boss previously stated that Gensler had become a political liability, insisting that the former chair had single-handedly "destroyed" the integrity of the SEC.
Garlinghouse has also famously labeled the outgoing chair "the Luddite of his time," blaming his anti-crypto stance for hindering US financial innovation. Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen went even further, dubbing Gensler the "worst public servant of all time."
"A new day"
Atkins has stressed that the goal of the SEC is to ensure that the US remains the safest place to invest.
"We've pivoted from the old practice of regulation through enforcement…Rather than fending off new innovative types of technologies, we're embracing them," Atkins stated during a recent CNBC interview.
免责声明：本文章仅代表作者个人观点，不代表本平台的立场和观点。本文章仅供信息分享，不构成对任何人的任何投资建议。用户与作者之间的任何争议，与本平台无关。如网页中刊载的文章或图片涉及侵权，请提供相关的权利证明和身份证明发送邮件到support@aicoin.com，本平台相关工作人员将会进行核查。
