Mark Uyeda, the SEC's interim chairperson, said at an event at the agency's Washington headquarters on Friday that the commission could consider establishing a short-term crypto regulatory framework to allow businesses to continue innovating while the agency works out a more permanent answer to digital asset regulation. "We should consider whether there is a more effective approach to regulation under a more permissive federal regulatory framework," Mr. Uyeda said in a recorded statement played at the agency's latest cryptocurrency industry roundtable. "While the committee works to develop long-term solutions to these issues, a time-limited, conditional exemption framework for registrants and non-registrants may facilitate greater innovation in blockchain technology within the United States in the short term."