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 administration of President Donald Trump announced the first significant step towards reducing regulatory pressure on the cryptocurrency industry.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is launching “a crypto task force.” In a Tuesday press release, the SEC described the task force as “dedicated to developing a comprehensive and clear

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 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the creation of a cryptocurrency task force on Jan. 21, 2025, a day after former Chair Gary Gensler resigned.

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Uyeda will serve as the interim head of Wall Street’s top cop while Trump’s pick for permanent chair, Paul Atkins, waits to be confirmed by the Senate.

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 forms crypto task force led by Commissioner Peirce to develop clear regulatory framework, address legal uncertainty and promote innovation.

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.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new leadership said on Tuesday it had created a task force to develop a regulatory framework for crypto assets, in the first major move by President Donald Trump’s new administration to overhaul crypto policy.