{"id":19267,"date":"2025-03-26T20:46:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19267"},"modified":"2025-03-26T20:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:46:50","slug":"sen-gillibrand-warns-against-a-watered-down-stablecoin-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19267","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Gillibrand Warns Against a \u2018Watered-Down\u2019 Stablecoin Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), one of the leading Democrats supporting crypto legislation, warned the industry against pushing for a \u201cwatered-down\u201d version of the long-awaited stablecoin legislation currently moving through the Senate, arguing that stringent regulations are necessary to foster innovation and protect investors from bank runs like the one on Silicon Valley Bank in 2023 and the collapse of crypto exchange FTX in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Speaking at the D.C. Blockchain Summit in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Gillibrand said that the bipartisan stablecoin bill \u2014\u00a0Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act) \u2014 creates a number of protections for consumers in the event of an issuer bankruptcy scenario.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to think through all the ways this can go wrong. Something as simple as how you define a dollar \u2014 is a Treasury the same as a dollar? What happens if your 1-to-1 backing is all in Treasuries and you have an interest rate misalignment like SVB just did, and you have a run on your stablecoin and all your dollar-to-dollar backing is in a three-month Treasury that you can\u2019t get out of \u2013\u00a0that\u2019s a run on your stablecoin, that\u2019s a collapse,\u201d Gillibrand said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

If dollar-backing requirements are not met or enforced, Gillibrand said: \u201cYou\u2019ll just have another FTX. You\u2019ll just have another algorithmic stablecoin that plunges because it never really made sense. That is a huge problem for the U.S. market.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe worst thing we could do is water it down,\u201d Gillibrand said. \u201cDo not think that a watered-down bill will help your industry. It will destroy your industry. Because one more SVB, one more algorithmic stablecoin [collapse], just continues to create such uncertainty that nobody wants to do business in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

After years of false starts, stablecoin legislation appears to finally be gaining momentum. Earlier this month, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee voted to advance the GENIUS Act to a Senate-wide vote. A similar bill from the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to go public on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Read more: U.S. House Stablecoin Bill Poised to Go Public Lawmaker Atop Crypto Panel Says<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Gillibrand said that if Congress is able to get the GENIUS Act signed into law, it is then more likely to be able to make progress on a market structure bill.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cA market structure bill is much more complex. It regulates the entire industry, not just one version of a digital asset,\u201d Gillibrand said. \u201cSo it\u2019s really important that we do this right so we can move to something much bigger, and something we need to build even broader consensus around.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

A market structure bill would create a regulatory framework for the crypto industry as a whole, giving crypto companies and digital asset issuers clearer rules of the road and a framework to determine whether their tokens are securities or not \u2014 and therefore, who their primary regulator is.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Speaking on the same panel, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) suggested that any digital asset with a centralized issuer is likely to be a security, not a commodity.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIf your digital currency has a CEO it’s not a commodity, by definition,\u201d Moreno said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

During another panel discussion at the same event on Wednesday, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), said the future market structure bill would need to \u201cfind a way to create a structure that works beyond the two major categories\u201d of security vs. commodity.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Moreno said he wanted to see the GENIUS Act passed before the August recess.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m gonna lay out the gauntlet \u2014 let\u2019s get this done by August recess, what do you think? Markets structure, GENIUS Act, [Strategic Bitcoin Reserve], all done by August,\u201d Moreno said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Gillibrand tempered expectations, telling Moreno that there was no way to get a market structure bill done by August, but that Congress is \u201cdefinitely going to get stablecoins done\u201d before the summer break \u2014\u00a0perhaps, she amended, even before the Easter recess in April, \u201cif we\u2019re really productive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), one of the leading Democrats supporting crypto legislation, warned the industry against pushing for a \u201cwatered-down\u201d version of the long-awaited stablecoin legislation currently moving through the Senate, arguing that stringent regulations are necessary to foster innovation and protect investors from bank runs like the one on Silicon Valley Bank in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-19267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}