Executives from multiple US crypto and finance firms are set to join the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s next roundtable to discuss crypto trading regulations.
The roundtable, titled “Between a Block and a Hard Place: Tailoring Regulation for Crypto Trading,” will be held on April 11 at SEC headquarters in Washington, D.C., and will be led by Commissioner Hester Peirce, who heads the agency’s newly formed Crypto Task Force, an April 7 press release form the commission said.
Names on the panel include Uniswap Labs‘ chief legal officer Katherine Minarik, Coinbase’s VP of institutional product Gregory Tusar, and Chelsea Pizzola, associate general counsel at Cumberland DRW.
All three firms have had run-ins with the SEC in the past, though the cases were later dropped under the Trump administration.
Other crypto-focused participants include Austin Reid, global business head at FalconX, and Richard Johnson, CEO of securities tokenization platform Texture Capital.
These crypto execs will be joined by New York Stock Exchange product chief Jon Herrick, UC Berkeley’s Christine Parlour, and advocates Dave Lauer of We the Investors and Tyler Gellasch of the Healthy Markets Association.
The event will run from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. ET, featuring an open roundtable followed by a regulatory direction discussion where the participants will weigh in on how the SEC should move forward with crypto oversight.
The April 11 session will be the second in a five-part series the SEC has dubbed the “Spring Sprint Toward Crypto Clarity.” The first roundtable, held on March 21, focused on the legal status of crypto assets and was the inaugural event hosted by the SEC’s Crypto Task Force.
Amidst this backdrop, the SEC is currently reviewing a set of past staff statements, five of which are directly related to crypto.
Acting Chair Mark Uyeda, in an April 5 X post, said the review was in line with President Trump’s executive order on deregulation and input from the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.
Among the crypto-related documents under review are a 2019 framework on how crypto sales might qualify as securities under the Howey Test, guidance around Bitcoin futures fund risks, and a statement questioning whether state-chartered banks can act as qualified custodians.
Meanwhile, on April 7, the regulator also approved a Form S-4 from Galaxy Digital, an institutional-focused crypto financial firm, tied to its plan to move its base from the Cayman Islands to Delaware and launch a new U.S. holding company, Galaxy Digital Inc.
