Taylor Lindman, former deputy general counsel at Chainlink Labs, has joined the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as chief counsel for the agency’s Crypto Task Force. Lindman succeeds Michael Selig, who now serves as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
In a post on X, SEC Commissioner and Crypto Task Force leader Hester Peirce shared her enthusiasm for the agency’s new hire.
Lindman spent more than five years at Chainlink Labs, where he served in several senior legal positions promoting oracle networks and smart contract data infrastructure within institutional finance.
Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, the global standard for connecting blockchains to other chains, real-world data sources, governments, and enterprise systems. Having enabled over $28 trillion dollars in transaction value, Chainlink provides vital infrastructure for tokenizing real-world assets such as equities, bonds, funds, commodities, and real estate as unified golden records that are more efficient, secure, and globally accessible.
The SEC established its Crypto Task Force in January of 2025. Last July, Chainlink Labs was among five new digital asset projects admitted to the task force to help establish frameworks for compliant asset tokenization and decentralized finance.
In a post on X, Chainlink celebrated Lindman’s SEC appointment as a significant step toward bringing the U.S. financial system onchain.