SEC Schedules Four New Roundtables for Crypto Task Force

The SEC’s Crypto Task Force announced Tuesday it will host four more roundtables on crypto and digital asset regulation.

The roundtables would run from April to June, building on the agency’s efforts to create clearer rules for the industry.

Crypto roundtables are a way for the SEC to “hear a lively discussion among experts” in order to understand current regulatory issues and what the Commission can do to “solve them,” Commissioner Hester Peirce, who leads the task force, said in a statement.

Sessions for the roundtables are slated to discuss trading (April 11), custody considerations (April 25), asset tokenization (May 12), and decentralized finance (June 6). The roundtables will take place at the SEC headquarters with both in-person and virtual attendance options.

Just a day after his appointment, acting SEC Chairman Mark Uyeda announced the establishment of the Crypto Task Force on January 21 to develop clear regulatory frameworks and registration paths for crypto companies.

By March, the SEC had assembled key figures and industry experts to help bolster these efforts.

The SEC’s plan to host four more crypto roundtables follows on from the task force’s first one held last Friday, which examined how securities laws might apply to digital assets.

“Spring signifies new beginnings, and we have a new beginning here, a restart of the commission’s approach to crypto regulation,” Commissioner Peirce said during that session.

Backstage at the first roundtable, Commissioner Peirce told Decrypt that the agency is also exploring how it could “provide some kind of framework or some kind of markers” to craft rules for NFTs as an asset category.

That followed its pronouncement on Thursday last week that crypto mining does not violate securities laws.

The move aligns with broader crypto policy changes under President Donald Trump, who has been supportive of the industry both during his campaign trail to become the first “crypto president” and right after his electoral win.

Since he began his second term as POTUS, Trump has signed an executive order establishing a strategic crypto reserve, moved to acquire as much Bitcoin as possible, and helped push a stablecoin bill forward, among other key initiatives he’s done so far for the crypto industry.

Edited by Sebastian Sinclair