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15-05-2025
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Trump Still on Track to Sign Crypto Legislation by August, White House's Bo Hines Says
TORONTO — Despite a recent setback, U.S. President Donald Trump should be able to sign stablecoin and market structure legislation before Congress goes on break in August, said White House official Bo Hines on Wednesday. Lawmakers are still discussing the legislation, which is good, said Hines, the executive director of the President's Council of Advisers on Digital Assets, said on stage at Consensus 2025 in Toronto. "Negotiations are ongoing," he said. "But I remain steadfast in my optimism that we're going to achieve — the President's desire is to do it — but stablecoin legislation and market structure legislation before the August recess." Still, he acknowledged that the legislative process was "evolving." Hines said earlier in the day that Trump's crypto ventures, as well as the president's family's tie-ups, did not pose any conflicts of interest. "His sons have the right to engage in capital markets as private business people, like anyone else does in the U.S.," he said on CoinDesk TV. "I don't see any conflict in doing so. By the way, it should be exciting that they're engaging in this space. If you're a good business person, you should be looking at digital assets and saying, 'how can I get involved?' Because this is the next generation of finance." He repeated this argument on stage at Consensus. "As we launch these tariff negotiations and trade negotiations play themselves out, we want to establish ourselves as a leader in digital asset financial technology more generally," he said. Asked on CDTV about reports that a small company was purchasing TRUMP coins, Hines said, "I'll say very firmly, the president of the United States can't be bought." The White House and members of its working group are still working on a strategic Bitcoin reserve, Hines said on in to access your portfolio
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10-05-2025
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State of Crypto: Mapping Out the Senate Stablecoin Bill's Next Steps
House Republicans unveiled a discussion draft of a market structure bill but all eyes this week were on the Senate, where a largely bipartisan effort to advance stablecoin legislation ran up against a wall. PS: I'll be in Toronto next week for Consensus. In town? Come say hi. You're reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions. Stablecoin and market structure bills are the two big things around crypto that Congress is expected to get to President Donald Trump's desk this year. There was a press conference by crypto and AI czar David Sacks with the chairs of the House and Senate committees. Everyone had this rough deadline of "before the August recess." Of these two bills, the stablecoin legislation was supposed to be the easier lift. It's focused on just a part of the crypto sector, while the market structure bill will define how a much broader part of the industry operates and is overseen by federal regulators. And up until just over a week ago, the stablecoin bill was largely sailing through with few issues. Now — while it's still expected to become law — the timing of its passage is far less certain. First thing's first: No one this reporter has spoken to this week thinks the Senate's stablecoin bill — the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act — is dead. According to multiple individuals familiar with the situation, lawmakers were already back to negotiating after Thursday's failed vote, and lawmakers could vote again as soon as next week — potentially even Monday. Thursday's vote failed after Democrats raised an alarm last weekend that certain provisions around national security, the soundness of the financial system and accountability, though Republicans argued that ongoing stablecoin usage requires swift passage. U.S. President Donald Trump's profiting off of stablecoins also raised alarm bells for lawmakers, senators introducing multiple bills that would prevent the President from issuing financial assets, including the "End Crypto Corruption Act," which would block all members of Congress, the president, vice president, other executive branch officials and their families from "issuing, endorsing or sponsoring crypto assets." On Wednesday, one individual told CoinDesk that it appeared that a deal might be in place so that Democrats would get a vote on the End Crypto Corruption Act, either as an amendment to the GENIUS Act or as a standalone bill, ahead of the procedural vote on the GENIUS Act itself. This ultimately did not happen, with lawmakers proceeding directly to the so-called cloture vote on Thursday; it fell 48-49. The vote did not fail on party lines either: though no Democrats voted in favor of the bill, Republicans Josh Hawley and Rand Paul joined 46 Democrats in voting against the motion (Majority Leader John Thune initially voted in favor of the bill, but flipped in a procedural move that will let him bring the bill back for a vote later). Among other issues was the fact that there was no bill text available at the time the vote kicked off. The cloture vote, which would open 30 hours of debate, is likely the main piece of leverage Democrats have to try and get their priorities into the bill because it needs 60 Senators to pass. After the debate, there will be another cloture vote before the final passage vote, but it would be difficult for a lawmaker who voted to open debate to walk that back afterward, one of the individuals told CoinDesk. Having their priorities sorted before getting to the final set of votes would also just generally provide more comfort to lawmakers, the individual said. None of the individuals who spoke to CoinDesk expect that an actual provision blocking the U.S. President from issuing or being tied to an issuer of a stablecoin will become part of the final bill. One of the individuals said ongoing negotiations are more focused on how foreign issuers are treated and anti-money laundering provisions. A broader concern was that a hefty delay in passing the stablecoin legislation may slow down the process for advancing the market structure bill, which will rewrite the law around how the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission oversee digital assets, including how cryptocurrencies might be defined as securities. A discussion draft was introduced in the House this week. If the Senate votes on the stablecoin bill in the next week or so, it should not hold up the other bill, two individuals told CoinDesk. : As the headline says. More on this in a few weeks. : The headline is pretty self-explanatory here. : Defense attorneys for the Samourai Wallet developers alleged the other day that the DOJ withheld crucial evidence in the form of notes about a conversation with Financial Crime Enforcement Network officials who told prosecutors that Samourai Wallet was not a money transmitting business. Prosecutors claimed Friday they didn't withhold this evidence. : Ripple and the SEC have asked a judge to okay the settlement agreement they first announced in March. : There is a new Pope, and Polymarket bettors gave him a 1% chance of succeeding Pope Francis. : Changpeng Zhao said he asked U.S. President Donald Trump for a pardon after his 2023 guilty plea to a Bank Secrecy Act violation. : The CFTC appears to have cleared the way for political events contracts to officially launch in the U.S., after dropping its appeal of Kalshi's 2024 court win. : Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the ranking member on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote letters to executives at two Trump-affiliated entities asking about their crypto projects. : New York Attorney General Letitia James' office asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to call ETH a security during its case against KuCoin, according to a set of documents Coinbase received from the SEC pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request. : The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency published an interpretative letter telling banks they can buy and sell crypto assets for customers to be held in custody and use third-party servicers. : Meta (formerly Facebook), which famously tried to get into crypto in 2019 and sparked a massive global backlash to its efforts, is mulling using stablecoins again, per Fortune. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley have both expressed concerns. Tuesday 10:00 a.m. ET (14:00 UTC) The House Financial Services and Agriculture Committees were scheduled to hold a joint hearing on digital asset market structure, but FSC Ranking Member Maxine Waters objected and instead held her own hearing on Trump's crypto tie-ups. Thursday 10:00 a.m. ET (14:00 UTC): Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to commodities and securities fraud charges last year. () It turns out former National Security Advisor Michael Waltz was not using Signal, but rather an unofficial version called TeleMessage, which was then hacked and later suspended services temporarily. () Jeffy Yu appeared to fake his own death to pump a memecoin, or something. The once late Yu is alive and kicking at his parents' home, the San Francisco Standard reported. 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