Under former SEC Chair Gary Gensler, many criticized the agency’s approach to crypto, calling it a regulation by enforcement approach, given the SEC filed enforcement actions against many major crypto firms and exchanges.

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday announced the staff of the Crypto Task Force headed by SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, including several of her former employees.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has emerged as a big savior of the crypto industry in recent weeks— a shift that seemed unimaginable just a few years ago under Gary Gensler’s leadership.

Acting SEC Chair Mark Uyeda on March 6 said the agency under former Chair Gary Gensler was an “outlier” in terms of its rulemaking and enforcement. He also discussed the future of the agency’s climate disclosure rule.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has appointed members to its newly formed Crypto Task Force, which includes personnel from the Acting Chairman’s office and other divisions across the SEC.

US SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce criticizes crypto regulation by enforcement as Coinbase lawsuit ends, pushing for clearer rules.

The SEC says Meme Coins are not securities and will not be treated as such. What does this mean for the crypto industry?

SEC launches public roundtables and names industry veterans to 14-member Crypto Task Force to develop new regulatory framework for digital assets.

Unlike Coinbase, which was still pending pre-dismissal, Ripple reached a final judgment. This means that if the SEC stopped fighting, the outcome would not be a Ripple victory but a $125 million fine and a five-year “bad actor” prohibition on security fundraising that Judge Torres imposed on Ripple.

CEO Brian Armstrong announced that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to drop its lawsuit against the cryptocurrency exchange. Under the second Trump administration, the government agency is likely to construct more crypto-friendly regulatory frameworks.

Acting SEC Chair Mark Uyeda and fellow Republican Commissioner Hester Peirce have taken issue with Gensler's approach ... In his first week in office, Trump ordered the creation of a cryptocurrency working group tasked with proposing new digital asset ...

SEC commissioner Hester Peirce told Yahoo Finance that she now hopes to provide "greater clarity" for a crypto industry that long argued Washington, D.C., treated it unfairly and inconsistently.