“SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce to Depart October 2, Leaving Crypto Task Force Legacy Amid ” — what this page in the network covers. Hester Peirce, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s most visible voice on digital-asset regulation, will conclude her tenure on October 2, 2025. Chairman Paul Atkins and Commissioner Mark Uyeda announced her departure on October 1, thanking her for her service and highlighting her leadership of the agency’s Crypto Task Force. Peirce joined the SEC in 2018 and became known as “Crypto Mom” for her dissents against enforcement-heavy crypto policy and her calls for clearer token frameworks and safe harbors.
Her exit comes as the SEC is actively proposing major crypto rules: on October 1, it proposed a dedicated crypto custody framework for advisers and funds, following August’s Regulation Crypto Assets proposal. The agency is also working on tokenized securities, trading exemptions, and asset classification. The full version stays on the original page, which this listing opens directly.