Over the weekend, the United States President-elect Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, launched memecoins just ahead of the much-anticipated inauguration event. The events have sent the crypto community into a tailspin.

SEC leadership transition marks Gensler's departure; Atkins to lead with pro-business focus, especially in crypto regulation.

President Donald Trump has elevated Republican Commissioner Mark Uyeda to take over the SEC from a now-departed Gary Gensler.

The SEC rolled out a new crypto task force on Tuesday, aimed at helping "draw clear regulatory lines" in the space, the agency said.

The SEC’s statement regarding the commission doesn’t really provide much insight into what it will seek to do, other than “provide clarity” on the rules regulating the crypto industry. It will likely achieve that by just stripping back those rules altogether,

"Arbitrary" and "capricious" will forever characterize Gary Gensler's tenure at the helm of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a couple of words used in two crucial rebukes by U.S. courts. Why it matters: The former Goldman partner and veteran regulator established the crypto industry as enemy number one from the outset of his term in 2021.

There has been a wave of crypto ETF filings after Gary Gensler stepped down, including requests to launch DOGE, BONK and TRUMP ETFs.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler has been a controversial figure ... of participants in the crypto space. President-elect Donald Trump, who has openly criticized Gensler, stated he would fire him on ...

Gary Gensler exits the SEC, leaving a legacy of investor-focused reforms and controversial crypto enforcement.

Bitcoin passed the $100,000 mark for the first time just last December. Could this be the year crypto goes mainstream?

Pro-crypto Republican Commissioner Mark Uyeda has been appointed the acting Chairman of the SEC following Donald Trump's inauguration. In a notice on Monday, the White House listed the individuals assigned by President Donald Trump to lead in various capacities of the new government. The list included Uyeda, who became an SEC Commissioner in 2022.

As Melania Trump launches her own ‘meme coin’, and Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr. look poised to do the same, it signals the dawn of a new era of institutionalised grift, devoid of meaningful accountability. In Trump’s America, it’s all out in the open.