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Hester Peirce has expressed concern over the SEC’s approach towards crypto enforcement, explicitly referencing the recent LBRY case. Commissioner Hester Peirce of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Oct. 27 shared her thoughts about the agency’s treatment of blockchain-based file sharing and payment network LBRY. In her statement, Peirce highlighted that
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Hester Peirce, one of five commissioners with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and an outspoken proponent of crypto, has urged lawmakers and regulators for clarity on digital assets.Speaking to Cointelegraph at the Permissionless II conference in Austin, Texas on Sept. 11, Peirce said she wouldn’t have expected
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charging nonfungible token (NFT) project Stoner Cats sparked feedback from commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda, arguing that the project’s activity constitutes fan crowdfunding, which they believe is common for artists. On Sept. 13, the SEC charged Stoner Cats 2 LLC, the firm
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Hester Peirce, a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has issued her opinion on the recent attempts of the institution to change the definition of “exchange” under the Exchange Act Rule. According to Peirce, the institution is now expanding its reach to solve “problems that do not
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“We had not tried to sit down with people in the industry” to discuss staking, the process by which crypto holders delegate their tokens to validators in order to earn crypto rewards, Peirce said. She said the SEC has known about staking for a long time, and its decision to
Read MoreIn a virtual fireside chat with the D.C. Bar, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce criticized the commission’s long-standing resistance to a Bitcoin ETF.Moderator Ashley Ebersole asked about the SEC’s highly public dissatisfaction with a long series of Bitcoin ETF proposals in the U.S. Peirce, who is often known as "CryptoMom," responded
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