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GENIUS Act Misses One-Year Rulemaking Deadline as Fed Chair Warsh Pushes Full Enactment

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The GENIUS Act is progressively tightening US stablecoin regulation, pushing issuers and exchanges toward federal licensing, compliance deadlines, and KYC requirements.

US regulators failed to meet the GENIUS Act's one-year deadline for finalizing stablecoin rules, compressing the implementation window for bank-integrated stablecoin infrastructure. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh separately ordered full enactment of the GENIUS Act. The GENIUS Act also mandates that stablecoin reserves flow into US Treasury debt instruments.

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