Hester Peirce
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Nov 5, 2026
Boris Bohrer-BilowitzkiGUEST
And from that point onwards, can verify in a privacy-preserving way using zero-knowledge proofs.
Boris Bohrer-BilowitzkiGUEST
You maybe have seen what Hester Peirce said from the SEC just a week ago, that zero-knowledge proof KYC and AML does make sense if implemented correctly.
Boris Bohrer-BilowitzkiGUEST
And it also is the best from both worlds, right? Because I said this initially, there is a massive difference between anonymity and privacy.
Boris Bohrer-BilowitzkiGUEST
I would like to be able to prove that I'm over 18 without somebody knowing exactly what my birth date is and exactly where I live.
Alex ThornHOST
NCUA is a little bit far afield for the crypto people.
Alex ThornHOST
Let's talk about the SEC, okay? So Commissioner Hester Peirce had to leave her post finally after an absolutely epic run at the commission.
Alex ThornHOST
So now you just have Chairman Paul Atkins and Commissioner Mark Uyeda.
Alex ThornHOST
Mm-hmm.
Scott MelkerHOST
They are not a new SEC rule.
Scott MelkerHOST
But it's interesting how deeply the SEC is now thinking about this, right? We talked about with Hester Peirce the years before.
Scott MelkerHOST
where she was a minority at the SEC and was proposing very reasonable ideas like safe harbor, a four-year path to decentralization to prove that you are not a security and that you could be a commodity or a decentralized network.
Scott MelkerHOST
And we've seen a lot of that now come into rulemaking with both the innovation exemption and, of course, with RegCrypto.
J. Christopher GiancarloGUEST
And he also shares my view that innovation should take place here in the United States, should support American capital formation, American risk hedging, and the American economy.
David HoffmanHOST
Well, between you, Chairman Selig, Hester Peirce, and also Paul Atkins, it seems we've finally grown an Avengers of regulators who... have discourse with the crypto industry, you know, advocate for us.
David HoffmanHOST
Don't write us a blank check.
David HoffmanHOST
I don't think any regulator has ever just written crypto a blank check, like has been fair and tough when the times call for it.
Chris GiancarloGUEST
What we ought to do is actually, if you want a right piece of legislation, it should say that the dollar belongs to the American people and every format of the dollar has to protect the American people's privacy, whether it's a digital bank account, whether it's a digital dollar by circle or tether, or whether it's a digital dollar issued by the U.S. government.
Tony EdwardHOST
What are your thoughts on what Commissioner Hester Peirce said before she departed about KYC AML needing to be revamped? Chris, we're seeing, I mean, data breaches.
Tony EdwardHOST
I'm all
Chris GiancarloGUEST
over that.
Tonya EvansHOST
And he's not alone.
Tonya EvansHOST
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, the woman the industry calls Crypto Mom, the person who has led the SEC's crypto task force since it launched, is leaving the agency in November after nearly three decades in Washington to teach at Regent University.
Tonya EvansHOST
I spoke with her on a recent episode of Confidently Crypto, so definitely go back and listen when you have a moment.
Tonya EvansHOST
Fantastic conversation.
Joseph ChalomGUEST
And now you don't even think about it.
Joseph ChalomGUEST
When someone's going to watch, when Hester Peirce in Washington
Gerald GallagherHOST
is
Joseph ChalomGUEST
going to watch Crypto in America, and I know she does, and I'm kind of a fanboy in a positive policy way, when she's watching it on YouTube, she's not going to think, what cloud is it running on?
Tony EdwardHOST
It seems to be a, a problem that we cannot stop.
Tony EdwardHOST
Uh, an SEC commissioner, Hester Peirce, I think, um, this week talked about KYC, AML, and we need to put the data on chain and have ZK technology.
Tony EdwardHOST
Is that something you're looking into help, uh, you know, your clients do as well that y- and eventually overall we have all these industries putting data on chain?
Edward WoodfordGUEST
Yeah, look, I think the concept of identity is, is, is, can, can be ex- can be accelerated, um, and that the effective controls around identity can be accelerated through blockchains.
Jeff MahoneyHOST
Hinting that state laws could be more restrictive, the proposed rule notes that state corporate codes are silent as to whether precatory proposals are proper to present for shareholder votes, but the SEC has permitted the inclusion of these types of proposals.
Jeff MahoneyHOST
Then SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said in support of the proposal, "Disrupting this mechanism by which small shareholders gain disproportionate leverage over companies would mark a fresh start.
Jeff MahoneyHOST
The transition period may be bumpy, but shareholders and companies will work to strike the right balance in state laboratories of experimentation." The Council of Institutional Investors expressed strong opposition to the proposed rescission.
Jeff MahoneyHOST
CII Executive Director Glenn Davis in a public statement said, "Could Rule 14a-8 be improved? Sure.
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