TBL Thinks: GENIUS Act
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It’s Thinking Time! This week, we cover the Genius Act.
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Big Victory for Crypto Industry
We thought about it. We talked about it. We wrote about it. And now it’s done. On July 17th, 2025, the House passed the GENIUS Act without amendment. The next day, President Trump signed it into law, marking it the country’s first-ever major cryptocurrency legislation.
Until now, stablecoins have had no clear federal rules. Issuers operated under a patchwork of state regulations, and the legal status of stablecoins under federal law remained uncertain. The GENIUS Act ends that ambiguity and creates a unified national framework for “payment stablecoins.”
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