Securities and Exchange Commissioner Hester Peirce has voiced concerns over the United States lagging backside global jurisdictions in adopting cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

During an online appearance at the Bitcoin (BTC) briefing "The B Word," Peirce pointed out that many other countries such equally Canada take already been trading crypto ETFs, while the U.S. is still deciding whether to approve such a trading instrument. She stated:

"I would never have imagined that I would be in this situation where nosotros would not yet have approved one and other countries are moving ahead."

The SEC commissioner also mentioned her concern that U.S. regulators could exist overstepping their remit past forcing the local crypto industry to play by a separate set of rules than everyone else.

"We're not a merit regulator, so we shouldn't be in the business of deciding whether something is good or bad, an investor is thinking of their entire portfolio, and sometimes we're thinking in ane-off terms of a particular product continuing on its own, and we forget that people are building portfolios," she noted.

Peirce's latest remarks come in line with her recent criticism of U.S. crypto regulation, with the SEC commissioner last month one time again urging authorities to refrain from overregulating the crypto industry. Despite calling for a softened regulatory opinion on crypto, the commissioner still believes that articulate crypto rules are disquisitional for the industry to thrive without fright of breaking the law. A long-running crypto abet, Peirce is widely referred to as "Crypto Mom" inside the crypto customs.

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As previously reported, U.S. regulators take delayed multiple approvals of crypto ETFs recently after consistently postponing such decisions over the past several years. In the meantime, some countries have already approved or launched Bitcoin ETF trading, with 3iQ and CoinShares' Bitcoin ETF going live on the Toronto Stock Commutation in April. Canadian fund managers Purpose Investments and Evolve Funds Grouping previously launched Bitcoin ETF trading as well.