{"id":18004,"date":"2024-10-23T12:45:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T09:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/gensler-affirms-secs-stance-on-cryptocurrency-regulation\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T12:45:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T09:45:29","slug":"gensler-affirms-secs-stance-on-cryptocurrency-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/gensler-affirms-secs-stance-on-cryptocurrency-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Gensler Affirms SEC&#8217;s Stance on Cryptocurrency Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-descr=\"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission\" class=\"old_tooltip\">SEC<\/span> will maintain its approach to regulating digital assets through enforcement actions, according to the agency&#8217;s chair, Gary Gensler, in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2024-10-22\/sec-chair-gensler-on-regulating-ai-crypto-video\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;For nine decades, we have benefited from robust laws from Congress and rules from various agencies [\u2026] that help promote markets \u2014 protect investors and facilitate capital formation. We will continue this policy,&#8221;<\/em> he stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The head of the Commission declined to comment on his potential resignation and the new project by U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, World Liberty Finance. <\/p>\n<p>This was in response to the host&#8217;s question about his plans should the Republican candidate win. The latter <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-dips-to-67000-amid-trumps-bitcoin-2024-speech\">promised<\/a> to dismiss Gensler if elected president.<\/p>\n<p>The interview took place a day after the regulator&#8217;s Examination Division <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/files\/2025-exam-priorities.pdf\">identified<\/a> crypto assets as a priority for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Gensler emphasized that he sees no need for additional regulatory frameworks beyond the Howey Test.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2023, lawmakers introduced a bill for Gensler&#8217;s removal.<\/p>\n<p>Two months later, following Grayscale&#8217;s court victory against the agency, a similar proposal emerged again.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2024, the House of Representatives began an investigation into the SEC&#8217;s use of politically motivated hiring practices.<\/p>\n<p>In October, it was reported that the agency&#8217;s Director of Enforcement, Gurbir Grewal, would be leaving. The community dubbed him the &#8220;chief instigator of Gensler&#8217;s aggressive crackdown on cryptocurrencies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEC will maintain its approach to regulating digital assets through enforcement actions, according to the agency&#8217;s chair, Gary Gensler, in an interview with Bloomberg. &#8220;For nine decades, we have benefited from robust laws from Congress and rules from various agencies [\u2026] that help promote markets \u2014 protect investors and facilitate capital formation. We will continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[991,36,128],"class_list":["post-18004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-donald-trump","tag-regulation","tag-sec"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}