{"id":32052,"date":"2025-07-17T20:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32052"},"modified":"2025-07-17T21:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T21:25:39","slug":"crypto-industry-reaches-milestone-with-passage-of-genius-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32052","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Industry Reaches Milestone With Passage of Genius Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"article-summary\" class=\"css-79rysd e1wiw3jv0\">After a week of squabbling in Washington, the cryptocurrency industry secured one of its primary legislative objectives and made progress toward a second one. <\/p>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The cryptocurrency industry reached a major milestone in Washington on Thursday, as Congress cleared legislation outlining the first federal rules for stablecoins, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/12\/technology\/crypto-congress-financing-lobbying.html\" title>a popular form<\/a> of digital currency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A bipartisan vote in the House to approve the bill, known as the Genius Act, sent it to the White House for President Trump\u2019s signature, now expected on Friday. He has promised to make it the first major piece of crypto legislation signed into law in the United States. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But even as the industry and its backers notched their first big policy victory, the fate of a potentially more consequential digital currency regulation bill still working its way through Congress was in doubt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The House on Thursday also passed the Clarity Act, sending the Senate legislation that would establish cryptocurrency market regulations that industry executives have championed for months. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"Dropzone-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the heart of that measure are provisions that would weaken the power of the Securities and Exchange Commission to police crypto and instead hand more control to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. That could shield the industry against the kind of aggressive enforcement the S.E.C. undertook in the Biden administration, when regulators filed lawsuits against a procession of major crypto firms, and instead empower a commission that is seen as much more friendly to it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Clarity Act \u201chas been absolutely the most important thing we have been pushing for,\u201d said Kara Calvert, a top policy official at Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto exchange and a longtime target of the S.E.C.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-kbghgg\">\n<div class=\"css-121kum4\">\n<div class=\"css-171quhb\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-asuuk5\">\n<div class=\"css-7axq9l\" data-testid=\"optimistic-truncator-noscript\">\n<div data-testid=\"optimistic-truncator-noscript-message\" class=\"css-6yo1no\">\n<p class=\"css-3kpklk\" data-tpl=\"t\">We are having trouble retrieving the article content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-3kpklk\" data-tpl=\"t\">Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1dv1kvn\" id=\"optimistic-truncator-a11y\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thank you for your patience while we verify access. 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The cryptocurrency industry reached a major milestone in Washington on Thursday, as Congress cleared legislation outlining the first federal rules for stablecoins, a popular form of digital currency.A bipartisan vote in the House to approve the bill, known as the Genius Act, sent it to the White House for President Trump\u2019s signature, now expected on Friday. He has promised to make it the first major piece of crypto legislation signed into law in the United States. But even as the industry and its backers notched their first big policy victory, the fate of a potentially more consequential digital currency regulation bill still working its way through Congress was in doubt. The House on Thursday also passed the Clarity Act, sending the Senate legislation that would establish cryptocurrency market regulations that industry executives have championed for months. At the heart of that measure are provisions that would weaken the power of the Securities and Exchange Commission to police crypto and instead hand more control to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. That could shield the industry against the kind of aggressive enforcement the S.E.C. undertook in the Biden administration, when regulators filed lawsuits against a procession of major crypto firms, and instead empower a commission that is seen as much more friendly to it. The Clarity Act \u201chas been absolutely the most important thing we have been pushing for,\u201d said Kara Calvert, a top policy official at Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto exchange and a longtime target of the S.E.C.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. 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