The US Securities and Exchange Commission is organizing another Crypto Regulation Roundtable on 11 April and takes part in participants and lawyers who previously clashed with the agency.
The session entitled Between a block and a hard place: tailor -made regulation for crypto -tradewill be hosted at the SECs Washington DC and streamed live through its website.
The composition of the panel means a shift in the committee’s strategy under acting chairman Mark Uyeda and Commissioner Hester Peirce’s Crypto Task Force, who once seeks insight from companies in regulatory crosshairs.
The round table will contain senior representatives of Uniswap Labs, Coinbase, Cumberland DRW and texture capital, in addition to financial academics and veterans for market infrastructure. Many attendees represent companies or positions that have been involved in open disputes or enforcement actions with the SEC, thereby displaying the deliberate Hercalibration of dialogue channels between the agency and the digital assets sector.
Restrict legal fighters as advisers
One of the most controversial inclusions is Katherine Minarik, Chief Legal Officer at Uniswap Labs. In 2024, its company received a Wells knowledge due to alleged exploitation of a non -registered exchange and broker platform. Before he came to Uniswap, Minarik led a lawsuit in Coinbase during his long -term battle with the SEC, which included enforcement equipment and research rounds.
The SEC has since dropped its case against Coinbase and has closed its investigation into Uniswap, which may reflect a strategic pivot reflected in involvement in disputes.
Similarly, Chelsea Pizzola, Associate General Counsel at Cumberland DRW, brings a background characterized by enforcement voltage. In October 2024, her company was confronted with a sec -right case for carrying out billions in crypto transactions that are reportedly without appropriate registration.
DRW has a track record of challenging regulatory boundaries, including a successful legal match against the CFTC during the office of Gary Genler. Pizzola has publicly described the failed attempts of the company to register his crypto-broker dealer, which underlines the unsolved frictions that now frame its role on the panel.
Greg Tusar, vice -president of the Coinbase institutional product, will also appear, which represents another company that is previously under SEC supervision. Coinbase was one of the most prominent goals of the tactics of “regulation through enforcement”, a model that is now under reconsideration.
Expert witnesses with disputed history
The round table will also contain Christine Parlor from UC Berkeley, a frequent academic contribution to the Defi -Discours. Parlor’s earlier attempt to serve as a witness expert in a crypto-related legal proceedings was rejected by the court, who called the potential to mislead jury members and a lack of methodological strictness. Nevertheless, she is now joining a critical round table as a guest of the SEC.
Dave Lauer, co-founder of Urvin Finance and we the investors, has a disputed record in the same way. Exchange operators have questioned his credibility as a witness to expert in high-frequency commercial lawsuits, which criticizes the fundamental assumptions and sourcing of his analysis.
Nevertheless, Lauer’s Grassroots give advocacy and earlier testimonials before the Senate Bank Committee is in regulatory conversations, in particular with regard to marketbility and transparency.
Regulatory context signals policy shift
The selection of the panel member, together with the wider movement, leans away from punitive enforcement and to participatory regulations.
Recent sec notes to terminate actions against companies such as Robinhood and Coinbase can be a confirmation that the era of crypto supervision guided by enforcement is decreasing. Paul Atkins, a former SEC commissioner who is now appointed to return as chairman, has argued for pragmatic regulatory frameworks that clarify the expectations of compliance instead of imposing retroactive fines.
Crypto Task Force of Commissioner Peirce has positioned the round table series as a mechanism to collect feedback from stakeholders and to explore nuanced approaches to regulations. The current session, one of the many planned, represents a paint must -test for the question of whether the committee is willing to involve opponents earlier in designing the next ititeration of crypto -governance.
Nicholas Losurdo, a former SEC consultant and now a partner at Goodwin Procter LLP, will moderate the discussion. The role of Losurdo in bridging the regulatory and industrial perspectives can reflect the intended tone of the meeting: opponents who have become advisers and form a framework that can ultimately define the future attitude of the sec compared to digital assets.
