{"id":82544,"date":"2026-04-18T11:01:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=82544"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:01:32","slug":"secs-new-podcast-outlines-crypto-as-top-priority-in-pro-innovation-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=82544","title":{"rendered":"SEC\u2019s New Podcast Outlines Crypto As Top Priority In Pro-Innovation Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman and two Commissioners have highlighted the crypto industry as one of the top priorities in the regulatory agency\u2019s pivot toward clearer and pro-innovation oversight.<\/p>\n

Crypto Tops SEC\u2019s Pro-Innovation Agenda<\/h2>\n

On Thursday, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and Commissioner Hester Peirce discussed<\/a> the regulatory agency\u2019s shift towards pro-innovation regulation and their efforts to implement US President Donald Trump\u2019s vow to make America the \u201ccrypto capital of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the first episode of the SEC\u2019s official \u201cMaterial Matters\u201d podcast, Atkins outlined the crypto industry as \u201cone area now that is really top on our list to try to get right with respect to regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peirce, who leads the Commission\u2019s Crypto Task Force, affirmed that the shift toward a more welcoming environment<\/a> for digital assets has made developing an \u201cunderstandable\u201d regulatory framework that is \u201cfit for purpose\u201d significantly easier.<\/p>\n

The commissioner considers that under the SEC\u2019s new approach, the regulator can better address the problems the crypto industry may face and open opportunities for innovation in this sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to have financial regulations that are open to innovators because innovation is what makes the financial markets resilient. It\u2019s what ensures that they serve people\u2019s actual needs,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n

To make the US a country where people want to innovate, she suggested that regulators must demonstrate they are willing to work with innovators to resolve ambiguities about how the law applies to their circumstances. This approach, Peirce affirmed, will benefit US investors and markets.<\/p>\n

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And there have been a lot of ambiguities in connection with crypto, which is a new technology that does things in new ways. Having a good regulatory structure in place is going to be helpful to us (\u2026) to identify where the bad activity is and to go after that bad activity, and not to spend our enforcement resources where our regulatory resources could have done the job.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Federal Regulation At A \u2018Very Important Inflection Point\u2019<\/h2>\n

When asked what a top priority should be to address potential risks related to crypto assets, Peirce noted that there hasn\u2019t been a regulatory framework around spot trading. She also noted that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will address that in the future.<\/p>\n

Notably, the SEC has published detailed guidelines to provide regulatory clarity, including rules<\/a> for broker-dealers and retail investors on the custody of crypto assets. A month ago, the Commission also issued joint guidelines with the CFTC that clarified how federal securities laws apply to many digital assets, confirming that most crypto assets are not securities.<\/p>\n

The Commissioner also noted that the recent cooperation between the two sister agencies has been helpful, as they want to ensure they are not spending unnecessary resources to address the same problem.<\/p>\n

As reported<\/a> by Bitcoinist, the SEC and the CFTC partnered in January to bring \u201ccoordination, coherence, and a unified approach\u201d to the federal regulation of the industry through their joint Project Crypto initiative.<\/p>\n

The agencies outlined their plan to clarify jurisdictional boundaries, remove redundant compliance requirements, and reduce regulatory fragmentation through their collaboration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think having the close cooperation with the CFTC ensures that we\u2019re monitoring markets which are very interrelated with one another, and then thinking about where it makes sense for products to be regulated, who the primary regulators should be,\u201d the Commissioner argued.<\/p>\n

During the podcast episode, Atkins and Peirce also noted that allocating the authority of the two agencies will help bring clearer regulation. This is expected to be addressed<\/a> by Congress in the long-awaited crypto market structure bill, also known as the CLARITY Act.<\/p>\n

The SEC chairman affirmed that \u201cthis is a very important inflection point, I think, in the American markets,\u201d concluding that there are \u201ca lot of opportunities ahead of us. So, it really is a historic time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman and two Commissioners have highlighted the crypto industry as one of the top priorities in the regulatory agency\u2019s pivot toward clearer and pro-innovation oversight. Crypto Tops SEC\u2019s Pro-Innovation Agenda On Thursday, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and Commissioner Hester Peirce discussed the regulatory agency\u2019s shift towards pro-innovation regulation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-82544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}