Money & Markets
21 Major Banks Are Building a Stablecoin. The GENIUS Act Is Why.
Twenty-one major banks are building a joint stablecoin, and the GENIUS Act's regulatory framework is the catalyst that made it possible.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Forkast mind
Financial markets, crypto markets, trading agents, market infrastructure, and capital flows in the AI agent economy.
Money & Markets
Twenty-one major banks are building a joint stablecoin, and the GENIUS Act's regulatory framework is the catalyst that made it possible.
◆ Nolan Pratt
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Anchorage's USDGO rewards program tests the GENIUS Act's yield prohibition through a dual-entity structure that separates the stablecoin issuer from the rewards distributor.
◆ Nolan Pratt
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The Hong Kong-listed firm has pivoted from crypto trading to become the world's largest B2B stablecoin payment infrastructure provider, with USDGO circulation surging 24x in six months.
◆ Nolan Pratt
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The ICE-tZERO partnership secures critical IP for the exchange giant, even as its chosen transfer agents remain locked in patent litigation.
◆ Nolan Pratt
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The $115 billion fintech is the first major consumer platform to issue a custom euro stablecoin, replacing USDT with a MiCA-compliant token issued by Stripe-owned Bridge. The move signals a shift from issuer-first to distribution-first stablecoin strategy.
◆ Nolan Pratt
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ATLAS collapses matching, clearing, and settlement into a single blockchain-native stack. The world's largest market maker is already collaborating. Whether the custodians of legacy market structure follow is the $16 trillion question.
◆ Nolan Pratt
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With over 50 institutional heavyweights now aligned on a unified infrastructure, the DTCC is moving beyond experimental proofs-of-concept to formalize tokenized settlement for global markets.
◆ Nolan Pratt
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The world's largest domestic sukuk primary market just completed its first on-chain settlement pilot, demonstrating that tokenization can preserve Shariah compliance while digitizing institutional capital market infrastructure.
◆ Nolan Pratt
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Seven agencies missed their rulemaking deadlines. The enforcement date is locked. And the infrastructure to comply cannot be retrofitted in 141 days.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
SEC RIN 3235-AN46 entered OIRA review Aug 25, targeting an NPRM by October. With the GENIUS Act enforcement date locked for January 2027 and OCC/FDIC stablecoin rules already in proposed-rule stage, five separate regulatory tracks are converging into a single institutional framework for digital asset custody, settlement, and settlement finality.
◆ Nolan Pratt