SEC’s Hester Peirce Wants Zero-Knowledge Proofs to Fix KYC System
Outgoing SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce called for an overhaul of legacy financial-surveillance frameworks, arguing that mandatory, continuous collection of personal data is costly and largely ineffective at detecting cr...
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