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| type | entity_type | name | domain | secondary_domains | status | legislation_number | signed_date | implementation_deadline | key_provisions | tracked_by | created | |||||||
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| entity | regulation | GENIUS Act (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025) | internet-finance |
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active | S.1582 (119th Congress) | 2025-07-18 | 2027-01-18 |
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rio | 2026-03-11 |
GENIUS Act (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025)
The first comprehensive US federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, signed into law on July 18, 2025. The Act establishes reserve requirements, classification standards, and consumer protections for payment stablecoins while explicitly excluding them from securities law.
Overview
The GENIUS Act creates a regulatory safe harbor for "permitted payment stablecoins" — tokens backed 1:1 by cash or short-term US Treasuries, with monthly public reserve disclosure. The Act's most significant provision is the explicit exclusion of these stablecoins from securities classification, creating the first statutory precedent for distinguishing crypto-native financial instruments from securities based on functional characteristics.
Key tensions as of March 2026 include stablecoin yield restrictions (issuers cannot pay interest) and FDIC interpretations that may restrict crypto-native models. Follow-up legislation (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act) is attempting to address the yield prohibition through compromise language.
Timeline
- 2025-07-18 — GENIUS Act signed into law by President, establishing first US stablecoin regulatory framework
- 2026-07-18 — Implementation deadline: supervisory agencies must publish implementing rules
- 2027-01-18 — Regulations take full effect (latest possible date)
Relationship to KB
- genius-act-establishes-stablecoins-are-not-securities-classification-creating-first-legal-precedent-for-crypto-native-financial-instruments — statutory precedent for functional exemptions
- genius-act-stablecoin-yield-prohibition-creates-structural-tension-between-regulatory-compliance-and-defi-economics — yield restriction implications
- genius-act-reserve-requirements-establish-1-to-1-backing-with-cash-or-treasuries-as-statutory-standard-for-payment-stablecoins — reserve standards
- Internet finance is an industry transition from traditional finance where the attractor state replaces intermediaries with programmable coordination and market-tested governance — stablecoin layer now has regulatory clarity
- Living Capital vehicles likely fail the Howey test for securities classification — precedent for functional carve-outs from securities law