Meanwhile, GENIUS

However, last year’s crypto legislative success in converting the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act into law is still an ongoing focus of the Treasury and banking regulators assigned to implement it.

Pettit, who had a hand in creating the GENIUS Act as a Senate staffer, said the banking agencies and Treasury are writing GENIUS rules and facing near-term deadlines in the law.

“We’re very cognizant of the different deadlines in front of us,” Pettit said. “I think we’re well on track to make all those deadlines.”

Witt noted that companies are advertising their “GENIUS-compliant stablecoins,” though that status doesn’t yet exist in the absence of final rules.

“But people skating to…