SEC ‘Earnest’ About Finding Workable Crypto Policy, Commissioners Say at Roundtable
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The staff at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has embraced the chance to finally work with the crypto industry to hash out policy for overseeing digital assets transactions, said Commissioner Hester Peirce, the head of the agency’s crypto task force.
The securities regulator is ready “to seek earnestly to find a workable framework,” Peirce said at the agency’s first crypto-focused roundtable on Friday. “I think we’re ready for the spring ahead,” she said, referring to the title of the day’s event, the “Spring Sprint Toward Crypto Clarity.”
The task, according to Peirce: “Can we translate the characteristics of a security into a simple taxonomy that will cover the many different types of crypto assets that…
