Executives from various U.S. cryptocurrency and finance companies are preparing to participate in the upcoming roundtable organized by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to address crypto trading regulations.
This roundtable, titled “Between a Block and a Hard Place: Tailoring Regulation for Crypto Trading,” is scheduled for April 11 at the SEC’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. It will be facilitated by Commissioner Hester Peirce, who leads the newly established Crypto Task Force, as per a release from April 7.
Featured speakers will include Katherine Minarik, chief legal officer of Uniswap Labs; Gregory Tusar, VP of institutional product at Coinbase; and Chelsea Pizzola, associate general counsel at Cumberland DRW.
All three firms have previously faced scrutiny from the SEC, although those cases were dropped during the Trump administration.
Other participants with a focus on crypto will include Austin Reid, global business head at FalconX, and Richard Johnson, CEO of the securities tokenization platform Texture Capital.
Joining these executives will be Jon Herrick, product chief at the New York Stock Exchange; Christine Parlour from UC Berkeley; and advocates Dave Lauer from We the Investors and Tyler Gellasch of the Healthy Markets Association.
The event will take place from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. ET and will include an open roundtable followed by discussions on regulatory direction, allowing participants to share insights on future SEC approaches to crypto oversight.
This session on April 11 will mark the second discussion in a five-part series referred to as the “Spring Sprint Toward Crypto Clarity.” The initial roundtable occurred on March 21 and focused on the legal classification of crypto assets, marking the first event hosted by the SEC’s Crypto Task Force.
In this context, the SEC is currently examining a set of past staff statements, five of which are specifically related to cryptocurrency.
Acting Chair Mark Uyeda noted in an April 5 post that the review aligns with President Trump’s executive order on deregulation and feedback from the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.
Included in the documents under review are a 2019 framework regarding how crypto sales may qualify as securities per the Howey Test, guidelines concerning risks associated with Bitcoin futures funds, and a statement evaluating whether state-chartered banks can act as qualified custodians.
Additionally, on April 7, the SEC approved a Form S-4 from Galaxy Digital, an institutional-focused cryptocurrency financial firm, related to its plans to relocate its base from the Cayman Islands to Delaware and establish a new U.S. holding company, Galaxy Digital Inc.