Privacy & Information Security Law Blog

On February 4, 2025, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, chair of the Crypto Task Force, laid out a broad agenda for the SEC’s approach to cryptocurrency over the next four years. Commissioner Peirce criticized the SEC’s past approach to crypto, describing it as “marked by legal imprecision and commercial impracticality.” The SEC’s new approach will be to “disentangle” the past, “including ongoing litigation,” and reach a “good place” in an “orderly, practical, and legally defensible way.” The statement lays out a 10-point, nonexclusive agenda for the SEC Crypto Task Force.

Read our full text coverage on Hunton’s Blockchain Legal Resource Blog: SEC’s Crypto Journey Continues.