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Landon Zinda, erstwhile argumentation manager for crypto deliberation vessel Coin Center, is the task force’s caller elder advisor.
Feb 4, 2025, 8:25 p.m. UTC
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Acting Chairman Mark Uyeda unveiled a list of the agency’s newly-appointed enforcement unit connected Tuesday, including 3 members of the Crypto Task Force.
Two of the task force’s appointees travel from wrong the SEC’s ranks. Richard Gabbert, who formerly served arsenic a counsel to crypto-friendly task unit caput Commissioner Hester Pierce volition beryllium its main of staff, arsenic good arsenic a elder advisor to Uyeda. Taylor Asher, who was antecedently a elder argumentation advisor to Uyeda, volition beryllium the task force’s main argumentation advisor.
The different named appointee – Landon Zinda, who volition beryllium counsel to Uyeda and a elder advisor for the task unit – previously served arsenic argumentation manager for crypto deliberation vessel Coin Center. Prior to his enactment for Coin Center, Zinda worked for 2 crypto-friendly congressmen, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.).
The SEC announced the enactment of the caller Crypto Task Force past month, conscionable 1 time aft erstwhile Chairman Gary Gensler stepped down. The task unit volition beryllium focused connected “developing a broad and wide regulatory model for crypto assets,” and volition enactment intimately with some Congress and the crypto industry, arsenic good arsenic sister regulatory bureau the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), according to the property merchandise announcing its formation
The enactment of the Crypto Task Force comes arsenic the bureau overhauls its attack to crypto regulation, moving distant from the signifier of alleged regularisation by enforcement that became modular signifier nether erstwhile Chairman Gensler.
“To date, the SEC has relied chiefly connected enforcement actions to modulate crypto retroactively and reactively, often adopting caller and untested ineligible interpretations on the way,” the SEC said successful a property statement. “Clarity regarding who indispensable register, and applicable solutions for those seeking to register, person been elusive. The effect has been disorder astir what is legal, which creates an situation hostile to innovation and conducive to fraud. The SEC tin bash better.”
Cheyenne Ligon
On the quality squad astatine CoinDesk, Cheyenne focuses connected crypto regularisation and crime. Cheyenne is primitively from Houston, Texas. She studied governmental subject astatine Tulane University successful Louisiana. In December 2021, she graduated from CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, wherever she focused connected concern and economics reporting. She has nary important crypto holdings.
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