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    Hester Peirce

    SEC commissioner known as Crypto Mom who left the agency on October 2, 2026

    Commissioner (through October 2, 2026), Securities and Exchange Commission

    Background

    Hester Peirce is a former commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, known as Crypto Mom for pushing clearer digital-asset rules, who resigned effective October 2, 2026 after more than eight years and led the agency's Crypto Task Force.

    About Securities and Exchange Commission

    Securities and Exchange Commission: Securities and Exchange Commission is the United States financial markets regulator, left with two sitting commissioners after Hester Peirce's October 2026 departure.

    Key facts

    Tenure
    Served as an SEC commissioner for more than eight years; resignation effective October 2, 2026source
    Crypto Task Force
    Directed the SEC's Crypto Task Force from February 4, 2025source
    Next role
    Joining Regent University School of Law as an associate professor in November 2026source

    WYDE coverage of Hester Peirce

    WYDE Newsroom has published 5 articles about Hester Peirce, from Aug 18, 2026 to Oct 3, 2026. Hester Peirce is a named leader in 3 stories and the subject of 2 stories. The most recent is $1 Million Clipping Fund for Creators Who End Hunger.

    WYDE Weekly

    $1 Million Clipping Fund for Creators Who End Hunger

    WYDE Weekly: a new $1 million clipping fund pays creators to end hunger, plus Ken Griffin's record $3 billion gift, three record health-system donations, and the regulators chasing crypto.

    Oct 3, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story

    Crypto & DeFi

    Hester Peirce Leaves the SEC on October 2, Dropping It to Two Sitting Commissioners

    Peirce, the SEC commissioner known as Crypto Mom and director of its Crypto Task Force, resigned effective October 2, 2026, leaving the agency with two sitting commissioners and no named successor.

    Oct 3, 2026 · 3 min read · Quoted or named as leader

    Crypto & DeFi

    Crypto Loses Two Top Washington Voices as Mersinger and Peirce Head for the Exits

    Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger steps down and SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce departs within weeks of the CLARITY Act's Senate defeat, thinning crypto's regulatory bench in Washington.

    Sep 28, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

    Crypto & DeFi

    Who Wins and Loses From the SEC's Tokenized-Stock Exemption

    The SEC's Innovation Exemption favors real tokenized shares with full shareholder rights, lifting firms like Securitize, Superstate, and Dinari, while synthetic price-only tokens from Robinhood, Kraken, and Ondo are left outside, and Commissioner Hester Peirce says true DeFi does not need the exemption at all.

    Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read · Quoted or named as leader

    Crypto & DeFi

    The SEC Proposes Regulation Crypto Assets With a $5 Million Startup Exemption and a $75 Million Fundraising Path

    Four days after canceling its August 14 vote, the Commission proposed two Securities Act exemptions plus a conditional safe harbor that would let an issuer delink a crypto asset from the investment contract it was sold under. Comments close in sixty days.

    Aug 18, 2026 · 3 min read · Quoted or named as leader

    Reported alongside Hester Peirce

    Sources

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