Stablecoin, Trump and Congress
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The legislation, known as the Genius Act, moves to the House, where passage is viewed in Washington as likely, before Trump’s desk.
Democrats have also raised concerns that the legislation opens the door for major corporations to issue their own private cryptocurrencies.
The bipartisan legislation, which passed the Senate in June and is likely to be voted on by the House this week, is the first-ever piece of stablecoin regulation. It would allow private entities to issue their own stablecoins, as long as they are fully backed by U.S. Treasuries. That will open the Treasury up to a whole new set of investors.
Stablecoin fever is still running hot. Zerohash, a crypto and stablecoin infrastructure startup, is set to raise about $100 million at nearly a $1 billion valuation, according to two sources familiar with the deal.
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives cleared key procedural hurdles on crypto legislation on Wednesday, a day after President Donald Trump intervened to save the initiative, paving the way for the first federal law for digital assets.