SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce to Step Down on Oct. 2

Peirce's exit matters less as a single vote than as a signal about the institutional memory behind the SEC's crypto posture. She was the commission's most consistent voice for clearer digital-asset rules, and her dual role atop the Crypto Task Force means both the advocacy and the operational coordination lose their anchor at once. The open question is whether that task force retains its mandate and staffing direction, or whether digital-asset policy quietly reverts to the enforcement-first default that defined the agency before her tenure.