Hester Pierce, The SEC’s commissioner, has Backed a Regulatory Framework for Stablecoins

The Crypto mom, Hester Pierce said that Stablecoins regulatory moments should be allowed for trial and error and, also a room for failure. Hester Pierce, the SEC’s commissioner, has backed a regulatory framework for stablecoins. 

She also hosted an online panel on May 12th by financial think-tank the official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum(OMFIF). Pierce, a long been advocate of cryptocurrency was asked to have a look at U.S body crypto regulations too. Peirce further commenting on the currency situation says that stablecoins are the only place that has got a lot of attention and moments this week.

“It’s been one area within crypto that’s really had quite a moment and there’s a lot of stablecoin use and therefore people are thinking down the road if this gets even bigger do we want to have some kind of regulatory framework?”

Peirce has asked SEC to use regulatory powers for providing exemptions to particular technologies, which would further allow an important examination. Noting

” We need to allow room for there to be a failure because that obviously is part of trying new things and our framework really does allow for that kind of trial and error. I hope that we will use it for that purpose.”

The algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD’s (UST) de-pegging was specified last week by U.S Capital with United States Secretary of the Treasury, Jannet Yellen, on Senate hearing happened on May 10, says about the need of stablecoins frameworks development requirement according to the situation. 

Immediately after two days, Yellen on 12th May made a stress-relieving note that stablecoins de-pegging from the U.S dollar will not be a threat to the country’s financial stability as they are set at the safe price scale presently, with the market capitalization of the top five USD stablecoin is around $154 billion, or nearly around 11% of the $1.36 trillion total crypto market cap according to the market recent analysis.

Further SEC’s Commissioner Peirce continuing to state about stablecoins regulatory environment, reminds the regulators that the term covers the variety of assets, including “what exists today” and also “what is going to exist tomorrow” which makes it difficult for the regulators. stating: 

“You may say ‘stablecoin’ and one stablecoin might look nothing like another stablecoin. I think it’s very important to approach all the conversations in crypto with an understanding that there’s a lot of variation which makes it difficult to craft a regulatory framework.”