Adrienne Harris leads the largest crypto regulatory unit ‘probably anywhere in the world’
Adrienne Harris, the superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), has reiterated her unwavering commitment to regulating New York’s virtual currency space. NYDFS’ relentless crypto regulatory efforts Under Harris’s leadership, the NYDFS’s regulatory endeavors in the crypto sector have been pivotal. The department, with her at the helm, has executed a two-year transformative initiative to strengthen its oversight of virtual currencies. This comprehensive effort includes crafting updated guidance for the adoption or listing of virtual currencies and establishing a framework to designate coins or tokens to the DFS greenlist. Appointed as superintendent in August 2021 and confirmed by the State Senate in 2022, Harris had transformed a three-person crypto unit into a team larger than an NFL football roster. According to Axios, Harris revealed during a recent policy summit hosted by the Blockchain Association in D.C, that the agency’s cryp...