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type: entity
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entity_type: regulation
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name: "GENIUS Act (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025)"
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domain: internet-finance
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secondary_domains: [grand-strategy]
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status: active
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legislation_number: "S.1582"
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enactment_date: 2025-07-18
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implementation_deadline: 2027-01-18
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tracked_by: rio
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created: 2026-03-11
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---
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# GENIUS Act (S.1582)
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The first comprehensive US federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, signed into law July 18, 2025. Establishes payment stablecoins as explicitly NOT securities, creating legal precedent for functional token classification outside securities law.
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## Timeline
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- **2025-07-18** — GENIUS Act signed into law, establishing first US stablecoin regulatory framework with 1:1 reserve requirements, monthly disclosure, and explicit non-securities classification
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- **2026-07-18** — Implementation deadline: supervisory agencies must publish implementing rules
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- **2027-01-18** — Regulations take effect (latest possible date)
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## Key Provisions
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- Stablecoin issuers must maintain 1:1 reserves in cash or short-term US Treasuries
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- Monthly reserve disclosure required
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- Legal protections for stablecoin holders in issuer insolvency
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- Boundaries on who can issue stablecoins
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- Issuers subject to Bank Secrecy Act for AML purposes
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- Payment stablecoins explicitly excluded from securities classification
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- Interest/yield payments to stablecoin holders prohibited
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## Current Status (March 2026)
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- Implementation rules in development
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- Stablecoin yield prohibition has become central tension in follow-up Digital Asset Market Clarity Act negotiations
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- FDIC reportedly pushing restrictive interpretations that could limit crypto-native stablecoin models
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## Relationship to KB
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- [[genius-act-creates-first-legal-precedent-distinguishing-payment-stablecoins-from-securities]] — legal precedent implications
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- [[stablecoin-regulatory-clarity-reduces-one-layer-of-classification-risk-for-crypto-native-capital-vehicles]] — impact on capital vehicle classification
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- [[Living Capital vehicles likely fail the Howey test for securities classification because the structural separation of capital raise from investment decision eliminates the efforts of others prong]] — treasury denomination clarity
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- [[internet finance is an industry transition from traditional finance where the attractor state replaces intermediaries with programmable coordination and market-tested governance]] — reduces regulatory uncertainty friction |