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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has unveiled the list of industry leaders who will participate in its upcoming roundtable on cryptocurrency trading regulation, set for April 11.
The event, titled “Between a Block and a Hard Place: Tailoring Regulation for Crypto Trading,” marks the second session in a five-part series aimed at shaping the future of digital asset oversight.
The agency dropped its lawsuits against Coinbase and Cumberland DRW earlier this year, and a separate investigation into Uniswap Labs closed in February without enforcement action.
Notably, all three firms have previously faced legal scrutiny from the SEC under the Biden administration.
Representing the SEC will be Acting Chair Mark Uyeda, Crypto Task Force Chief of Staff Richard Gabbert, and Commissioners Caroline Crenshaw and Hester Peirce.
Additional participants include Dave Lauer, co-founder of We the Investors, and Tyler Gellasch, CEO of the Healthy Markets Association. The session will be moderated by Nicholas Losurdo, a partner at Goodwin Procter.
The roundtable will also feature representatives from traditional finance and academia, such as Jon Herrick from the New York Stock Exchange, Austin Reid of FalconX, Richard Johnson of Texture Capital, and Christine Parlour, finance chair at the University of California, Berkeley.
Uyeda announced on April 5 that, in line with Trump’s deregulation agenda and guidance from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk, the SEC is reviewing seven staff-issued statements—five of which concern cryptocurrencies.
The SEC’s recent shift in tone under President Donald Trump reflects a broader effort to reevaluate the agency’s approach to digital assets.
Other documents being reconsidered include statements from the Divisions of Investment Management, Corporation Finance, and Examinations, particularly those addressing risks tied to Bitcoin futures, crypto custody, and industry-wide bankruptcies during 2022.
As reported, the SEC announced new guidelines on April 4, stating that certain fiat-backed stablecoins will be classified as “non-securities,” thereby exempting them from transaction reporting requirements.
Among those under review is a 2019 framework from the SEC’s FinHub that assessed when digital asset sales could qualify as investment contracts under the Howey test.
