SEC’s Hester Peirce on a clearer, more inviting path forward for crypto

Peirce critical of “unreasonable” SEC approach to efforts to build crypto-native businesses.

“If government sets up too many regulatory hurdles, people stop trying to build new things,” said SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce at the Wharton Fintech Lecture Series event in Washington D.C. this week.

In her speech, Peirce outlined the ways in which her agency has often asked too much of

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