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The SEC's most crypto-friendly commissioner is leaving, right as the agency's crypto rulebook is still being written.
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Hester Peirce posted her resignation letter on X on September 25, 2026. Her last day is October 2.
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She joined the SEC in January 2018 and has served through three very different chairmen.
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In 2025 she was picked to lead the SEC's new Crypto Task Force, replacing enforcement with actual rules.
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Her Token Safe Harbor idea from 2020 shaped the SEC's new Regulation Crypto Assets proposal.
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That proposal's public comment period does not close until October 20 — after she's already gone.
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Congress's own crypto bill, the CLARITY Act, failed a Senate vote 49 to 50 on September 15.
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She leaves the SEC with just two commissioners, who now have to finish the job without her.