The SEC has launched a Crypto Task Force to bring clarity to digital asset regulations, tackle crypto securities, stablecoins, and exchanges, and engage with industry leaders. Here's what it aims to do.

Hester Peirce outlines the SEC’s Crypto Task Force plans to clarify digital asset rules, focusing on regulatory clarity and innovation.

Industry groups have a wish list they say could bring more regulatory clarity around cryptocurrencies and allow for growth.

Landon Zinda, former policy director for crypto think tank Coin Center, is the task force’s new senior advisor.

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,

Peirce also urged crypto companies to be patient as the agency decides how to “disentangle” itself from litigation initiated under former Chair Gary Gensler.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) just pulled the trigger on its new Crypto Task Force website. The platform officially opened today, inviting public input as the SEC tries to untangle over a decade of confusion and legal gridlock in crypto regulation.