With Hester Peirce, affectionately known as "Crypto Mom," now heading up the SEC's newly established Crypto Task Force, the tides are turning in favor of clarity and progress. As Commissioner Peirce predicted last month in an exclusive interview with Coinage, change is finally here, and it’s going to be faster than people anticipate.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

"CryptoMom” Hester Peirce, who was appointed by President Trump to the SEC in 2018, will lead the new task force to develop clear rules for digital assets, encouraging compliance and reducing fraud.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could see a shift in its approach to cryptocurrency enforcement under the incoming Trump administration.

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,

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.

Peirce will lead the crypto task force, while Richard Gabbert, Uyeda’s senior advisor, and Tayler Asher, Uyeda’s senior policy advisor, will serve as chief of staff and chief policy advisor, respectively, according to an agency news release.