FDIC Reveals Proposed Guidelines for Stablecoin Issuers Underneath GENIUS Act – Decrypt

The Federal Deposit Insurance coverage Company (FDIC) revealed proposed guidelines Monday that might implement stablecoin rules beneath the GENIUS Act—which President Donald Trump signed into legislation final summer season—establishing necessities for FDIC-supervised cost stablecoin issuers and banks participating in stablecoin actions.

The proposal creates a prudential framework together with requirements for reserve belongings, redemption processes, capital necessities, and danger administration for supervised stablecoin issuers.

A key provision explicitly excludes stablecoins from deposit insurance coverage protections. Deposits held as reserves backing cost stablecoins wouldn’t be insured to token holders on a pass-through foundation, confirming that stablecoins will not obtain the identical protections as conventional financial institution accounts.

The proposal additionally mandates that issuers redeem tokens inside two enterprise days, and prohibits them from claiming their tokens generate curiosity or yield, together with by third-party preparations. The rule clarifies that tokenized deposits assembly the statutory definition of “deposit” would obtain an identical therapy beneath the Federal Deposit Insurance coverage Act as some other deposit kind. 

The FDIC’s motion implements the GENIUS Act, which permits cost stablecoin issuers with lower than $10 billion in excellent tokens to decide on state-level regulation if their state meets federal requirements. The Treasury Division is concurrently growing rules for evaluating state regulatory regimes, with its remark interval working by June 2, 2026.

The FDIC seeks suggestions on 144 particular questions in its proposal, with the 60-day remark interval starting upon Federal Register publication. The Workplace of the Comptroller of the Foreign money (OCC) issued its personal framework in February.