Stuking validated. The new dry management team (Securities and Exchange Commission) of the United States seems Well determined to put an end to Gary Gensler’s anti-Crypto policy (The president of the dry under Joe Biden). Indeed, decisions follow one another to allow the Bitcoin sector (BTC) to develop freely. Today, it is the Stoking turn to be the subject of a regulatory turnaround. What increase the appeal of blockchains by Proof-of-Stake (POS) for institutional investors.
- The United States SEC has finally clarified its position on Staking, marking a positive turning point after the anti-Crypto era of Gary Gensler (who had resigned on January 20, 2025).
- The assets involved in stuking (for consensus in evidence) are no longer considered as securities, thus releasing the adoption potential of blockchains in POS.
Staking activities do not contravene the laws on US securities
In the United States, the Securities and Exchange Commission is to correct His copy stuffed with faults left by his previous president Gary Gensler. Faults that have seriously slowed down For 4 years the adoption of cryptocurrencies and their innovations in the USA.
Among The obstacles left in the path of the sector of Bitcoin by the Biden administration, appeared the status of stuking Blockchain networks in Proof of stakeOr Proof-of-Stake (Pos), as are for example Ethereum (ETH) and Solara (GROUND).
Cryptos actors wanted to be sure that Stoking assets are not considered securitiesin the sense of law US on securities. And thereby that there is No registration obligation with the dry to offer. And this Thursday, May 29, 2025 will mark a victory In this area for the cryptocurrency sector, as we will see.
The assets involved for proof-of-stake consensus are not securities
Indeed, this May 29, the Division of Corporation Finance from the dry comes from publish a statement whose purpose is « bring more clarity on the application of US federal laws on securities to cryptocurrencies (…) concerning the stuking ».
And the clarification is very real, the digital assets involved in the post do not represent securities and « participants in Staking protocol activities are not required to register »With the dry. Once again, The Pro-Crypto Commissioner Hester Peirce supported this initiative constructivewhich lifts (finally!) The vagueness and uncertainty about this activity.
“It is a welcome clarification for stakers and stuking service providers in the United States. (…) The uncertainty about the position of the regulatory authorities on Stoking has discouraged the Americans to carry it out, for fear of breaking the laws on securities. (…) This has artificially limited participation in the consensus of the blockchain networks by POS, by compromising their decentralization, their resistance to censorship and the credibility of their neutrality. »»
Hester Peirce, Securities Commissioner and Exchange Commission
The United States’s dryness therefore continues its radical change to constructive and benevolent regulation of cryptocurrenciesAfter 4 long years of anti-Crypto war of the Biden Administration. And the blockchains stoking in Proof-of-Stake has just benefited from this positive dynamic, in favor of innovation.