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SEC Commissioner leading the agency's Crypto Task Force, set to depart in November 2026.
A September 17 order lets qualifying platforms trade fully backed tokenized NMS stocks without registering as exchanges or dealers. Every stock takes 30 days of notice to an issuer that is free to refuse it.
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SEC estimates its proposed crypto self-custody fallback will cost each adviser that uses it $433,833 a year, and assumes about 823 firms will. After the CLARITY Act's Senate failure, that price helps decide which advisers can hold newly launched tokens for clients.
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French Hill, the House Financial Services chair, says SEC and CFTC crypto rules fall short of the CLARITY Act the Senate blocked 49-50 last month. His case is that a later administration can rewrite rules issued under existing agency authority, while a statute would hold.
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Either Paul Atkins or Mark Uyeda can now act alone as the SEC's quorum under a rule effective Oct. 2, but only on matters where the other is disqualified. Decisions on the pending crypto custody and offering proposals therefore sit with a Commission of two people.
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CFTC's October 5 notice suggests retail crypto counts as delivered within 28 days only if the customer holds the private keys. That preliminary test would decide whether coins kept on exchange books fall under rules the agency has not yet proposed.
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Hester Peirce used her penultimate week as an SEC commissioner to urge replacing bulk KYC collection with zero-knowledge proofs of eligibility. She filed no proposal and spoke for herself, so the collection rules she criticized stay as written.
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, head of the agency's Crypto Task Force, resigns Oct. 2, leaving Paul Atkins and Mark Uyeda as its only two commissioners. Neither her seat nor Caroline Crenshaw's has a nominee, so crypto policy now rests on two Republican votes.
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SEC proposals approved Wednesday would give registered investment advisors much more room to charge performance fees on capital gains in client accounts. Interval-fund changes and a credential route to accredited status widen what retail clients can buy, and the fee rule changes how advisors get paid for it.
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SEC Chairman Paul Atkins brought three retail-access items to a Commission meeting, on performance fees, interval funds and credential-based accreditation. Each is still a proposal or notice, so sponsors get a direction this quarter and the terms later.
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Hester Peirce exits the SEC on October 2, cutting it to two Republican commissioners with seven seats empty across the SEC and CFTC. Crypto Briefing warns that one recusal could then leave the commission short of a quorum on crypto and market rules.
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Fed proposals issued Sept. 24 would set stablecoin rules under the already-enacted GENIUS Act, nine days after the Clarity Act stalled in the Senate. Clarity's unresolved jurisdiction questions still lack a statute, and the SEC's crypto task force leader, Hester Peirce, leaves Oct. 2.
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A September 15 cloture vote needs 60 votes, and only 14 working days remain before the October recess. The SEC is drafting a token exemption in the meantime.
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Regulation Crypto Assets borrows the JOBS Act structure for digital assets and preempts state registration, including on secondary trades. The preemption is the part that changes deal papering.
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The SEC's Sept. 17 order lets venues trade tokenized stocks in permissioned AMM pools without registering as exchanges, if the token passes the underlying's dividends and votes to the holder. Robinhood's 200 tokens are Jersey debt paper.
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The joint letter to SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce defines a qualifying decentralized exchange by four tests, three of them checkable against deployed code and the fourth a judgement about who holds discretionary privileges.
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The particulars of claim filed on September 17 name two men in Preston, nine handles and a Stripe profile in a third name. X is chasing payments made under a creator program it has already closed.
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The order carves out a new category called a tokenized securities venue, caps how many symbols and how much volume it can trade, and requires public smart contracts while the Commission drafts permanent rules.
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US debt crossed $40 trillion and the interest bill now tops Medicare. The buyback that helped move gold and bitcoin was $4 billion, or one hundredth of one percent of the stock.
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An enforcement retreat, a rescinded custody bulletin and a fresh rulemaking improve the arithmetic for US digital-asset firms. None of it needed Congress, and none of it binds a successor.
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Participants at the SEC's 45th Small Business Forum voted to expand the accredited investor test and lift Reg CF from $5 million to $20 million. An October rulemaking is the test of intent.
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