Trump, Stablecoin and House
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As Trump prepares to sign the law, Consumer Reports' senior director monitoring digital marketplaces, Delicia Hand, told Ars that the group plans to work with other consumer advocates and the implementing regulator to try to close any gaps in the stablecoin legislation that would leave Americans vulnerable.
Stablecoin legislation is on the way to President Donald Trump’s desk, helped by a North Carolina Democrat among 102 crossing the aisle.
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.