The SEC’s new crypto task force will also coordinate with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) – which, under the leadership of former Chair Gensler and former CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam, has been locked in competition with the SEC over which agency should be the primary regulator of the crypto industry.

This undertaking will take time, patience, and much hard work,” Peirce said, adding the agency plans to encourage a regulatory environment that “protects investors, facilitates capital formation, fosters market integrity,

Crypto bros rejoiced Tuesday after President Donald Trump’s revamped Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) launched a new cryptocurrency task force led by Hester Peirce, known by some in the industry as “crypto mom.”

With Donald Trump in the White House, the new-look SEC is taking aim at its past crypto regulation tactics and developing a new path forward.

Commissioner Mark Uyeda will take over running the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as the agency awaits the Senate confirmation on

President Donald Trump 's newly appointed Securities and Exchange Commission acting chairman, Mark Uyeda, announced the launch of a cryptocurrency task force to be led by Republican commissioner Hester Peirce.

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,

The acting chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission named Republican Commissioner Hester Peirce as the head of a new cryptocurrency task force, the first step in an expected about-turn by the Wall Street regulator on crypto.

The SEC announced an initiative Tuesday to create a regulatory framework for digital assets with a new internal task force led by Republican commissioner Hester Peirce.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission will launch a cryptocurrency-focused task force to come up with ways to regulate the market, in one of the first moves by the agency after the resignation of crypto skeptic Gary Gensler.

SEC, under acting chair Mark Uyeda has launched a crypto task force. “Crypto Mom” Hester Peirce will spearhead the initiative. The task force aims to

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has taken its first step toward crypto regulatory clarity following former Chair Gary Gensler’s departure on Jan. 20. According to a Jan. 21 announcement, the agency is creating a crypto task force dedicated to developing a framework for digital assets.