On January 21, 2025, the SEC’s Acting Chairman, Mark T. Uyeda, announced the formation of an SEC Crypto Task Force (CTF) led by Commissioner Hester Peirce. On February 4, 2025, Peirce laid out 10 of the CTF’s top priorities, which are not exhaustive, nor are they presented in order of priority or order of expected completion. Overall, the focus of the CTF is to take a new approach to regulating digital assets and create clear and practical policy measures geared towards innovation.

On May 26, 2015, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a notice in the Federal Register indicating its intent to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of its proposal to create an incidental take permitting program under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.