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Crypto trading at regulatory crossroads: Inside the SEC's latest thinking on blockchain markets

Monday, April 14, 2025

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers:

The SEC's latest Crypto Task Force Roundtable brought an unusually sharp focus to the fast-evolving, increasingly unavoidable question: How do we regulate crypto trading without stifling innovation or abandoning investor protection? Two senior SEC officials, Acting Chairman Mark T. Uyeda and Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw, offered strikingly complementary-yet nuanced-perspectives on the regulatory challenges surrounding tokenized securities, vertically integrated exchanges, and decentralized market infrastructure. From Buttonwood to Blockchain: Uyeda Sees a Parallel

Acting Chairman Uyeda began his remarks by drawing a historical line from the Buttonwood Agreement of 1792 to today's emerging crypto markets, which, like the early stock exchanges, have grown organically outside traditional regulatory frameworks. He noted that many crypto asset trading platforms remain largely state-regulated, resembling money transmitter networks rather than formal exchanges. The result is a patchwork of compliance regimes, potentially slowing down the broader adoption of crypto as a mainstream asset class. Uyeda floated a compelling idea: that market participants might prefer a single SEC license covering both tokenized securities and non-security ......................

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