Hester Peirce Charts a New Course for the SEC

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Nathaniel Whittemore

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🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In comments this week, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce articulated the new path for the agency, including how it was going to deal with numerous jurisdictional issues. This shows just how forward focused the crypto industry finally gets to be. Source: https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/peirce-remarks-dc-blockchain-summit-032625 Sponsored by: Ledger Ledger, the world leader in digital asset security, proudly sponsors The Breakdown podcast. Celebrating 10 years of protecting over 20% of the world’s crypto, Ledger ensures the security of your assets. For the best self-custody solution in the space, buy a LEDGER™ device and secure your crypto today. Buy now on Ledger.com. Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast: https://pod.link/1438693620 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nathanielwhittemorecrypto Subscribe to the newsletter: https://breakdown.beehiiv.com/ Join the discussion: https://discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8 Follow on Twitter: NLW: https://twitter.com/nlw Breakdown: https://twitter.com/BreakdownNLW

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW.
0:09.0	It's a daily podcast on Macro, Bitcoin, and the Big Picture Power Shifts remaking our world.
0:19.0	What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, March 30th, and that means it's time for Long Read Sunday.
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0:35.1	slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Welcome back to another
0:38.9	long read Sunday. This week we had the DC blockchain summit, the eighth annual such event,
0:45.3	and it was definitely a different tone than we'd seen in the past. This one was all about practical
0:50.8	actions, legislation that is coming to bear. It is so about moving forward. And a great
0:56.9	example of that was the remarks prepared by SEC Commissioner Hester Purse. Now, Commissioner
1:01.8	Perce has always been a calm, rational voice on crypto, even in the dark times of the Gensler
1:07.8	era. And now you can feel how unleashed she is. This speech is an
1:13.3	absolutely dense look at specific ways that the U.S. can move forward dealing with very particular
1:20.3	issues. This is the opposite of highfalutin. This could not be more practical. In the speech,
1:27.4	Perce offers a lot of thoughts about how to
1:30.6	actually put new rules, regulations into practice, thinking specifically about potential jurisdictional
1:37.0	challenges. So now I'm going to turn it over to an AI version of myself to read Commissioner
1:42.0	Perce's remarks, and then I'll come back and discuss
1:44.4	them a little bit more. Miles to go. Remarks before the Digital Chamber's eighth annual DC
1:50.7	blockchain summit. Before I begin, let me remind you that my views are my own as a commissioner,
1:56.8	and not necessarily those of the SEC or my fellow commissioners. The poems of Robert Frost,
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