Last summer, the SEC launched Project Crypto in what amounts to an all-out sprint to the finish to address to what extent and how crypto assets are to be regulated under the federal securities laws. The efforts are being undertaken by the SEC’s Crypto Task Force, which has throughout the course of 2025 engaged in a massive information gathering campaign geared toward identifying areas of potential regulation (or deregulation) and unique considerations for the SEC that are raised by the world crypto assets.

Next up on the Crypto Task Force’s agenda is the topic of financial surveillance and privacy, but the SEC’s initial efforts to hold a roundtable on the topic were stymied by the government shutdown. Last Friday, the SEC announced that the agenda and panelists had been set for the Crypto Task Force’s rescheduled Roundtable on Financial Surveillance and Privacy, which will take place on December 15, 2025 from 1:00 – 5:00 pm at the SEC’s DC headquarters and via live webcast.

– Dave Lynn