Jackson Miake got the role under the 2025 Stablecoins Bill, but the SSC has not published how it evaluated his candidacy. His term runs through July 2031.
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Jackson Miake is now Vanuatu's Commissioner of Stablecoins. The appointment took effect in July 2026 under the Stablecoins Bill Parliament passed in 2025. He is the first person to hold the role.
The job sits inside the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management on a contract basis, not as a permanent civil service post. The Stablecoin Supervisory Commission, or SSC, appoints the Commissioner for a five-year term, renewable once. The law requires a merit-based selection process with fair and transparent criteria. The public record shows none of that so far.
No press release has come from the Ministry, the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission, or the SSC. No explanation of how eligibility was evaluated. No statement on whether the SSC ran an open competition or whether Miake was the sole candidate. The Ministry did not respond to requests for comment. The SSC has no public timeline for releasing details.
The gap matters because the SSC's credibility is early in its life. Larger financial centers with mature frameworks still get questioned on selection processes. Vanuatu is new to stablecoin regulation, and a first appointment with no documented process draws scrutiny regardless of the appointee's qualifications.
The SSC's mandate is broad under the bill: licensing requirements for issuers, reserve mandates, ongoing oversight. Stablecoin issuers operating in or from Vanuatu face detailed disclosure obligations meant to protect consumers and maintain financial stability. For a small Pacific island nation, that is an aggressive posture toward digital currency regulation, and the enforcement will fall on the Commissioner's desk.
Miake's core responsibilities include organizing SSC meetings, setting agendas, implementing decisions, drafting annual strategic plans and work programs, and handling secretariat support. The legislation requires at least five years of senior management experience relevant to those functions.
His background covers that bar. He spent six years from 2012 to 2018 as ICT Policy Manager at Vanuatu's Department of Communications and Digital Transformation, working on policy across ICT and telecoms. From January to July 2026 – right up to the appointment – he was Governance Risk and Compliance Specialist at Exness. In the second half of 2025, he interned as a Team Leader at the Security Operations Centre within the Australian Cyber Security Aide Centre.
Miake holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Massey University and was studying cybersecurity and human behavior at Western Sydney University as of April 2025. The technical background fits a job overseeing digital currency infrastructure where security risks are real and regulatory complexity keeps growing.
Neither Goldman Sachs nor any major stablecoin issuer has commented publicly on the appointment. The related legislation has drawn attention from financial centers watching how smaller jurisdictions handle digital asset regulation, particularly after the Goldman CEO backed the CLARITY Act as banks fight for stablecoin market share.
The Commissioner's first strategic plan will be the first test of whether the framework has operational weight. As of July 2026, no timeline for that plan has been released.
Miake's five-year term runs through July 2031.
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