Pending Review
Internal White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) memos from April 2026 identified Section 4(a)(11) as a 'structurally opaque provision' that had bypassed standard staff-level economic impact modeling during its committee markup.
Date: 2026-04-08
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
The Treasury Department's April 2026 FOIA denial formally acknowledges for the first time the existence of 'non-public technical assistance records' shared between industry-adjacent regulators and legislative staff during the GENIUS Act drafting phase.
Date: 2026-04-12
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
In April 2026, the Treasury Department denied a FOIA request for 'technical assistance' notes sent to Senate Banking staff, citing the deliberative process privilege.
Date: 2026-04-12
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
The official Senate Banking Committee Report (119-32) for the GENIUS Act omits all internal staff memoranda regarding the competitive impact of the $10 billion state-regulator threshold.
Date: 2025
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
Coinbase reached a deal with Senate Banking Committee leadership in May 2026 on Section 404 of the CLARITY Act to explicitly protect 'activity-based rewards' calculated by balance or tenure, effectively codifying the rewards model previously operating in the GENIUS Act's legal gray area.
Date: 2026-05-02
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
A White House CEA report in April 2026 estimated that the 'stablecoin yield loophole' in the GENIUS Act could result in a 0.02% decrease in total bank lending if not corrected by subsequent legislation like the CLARITY Act.
Date: 2026-04-08
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
The OCC's February 2026 NPRM proposes an 'anti-evasion presumption' that would treat yield paid by an affiliate (like an exchange) as if it were paid directly by the stablecoin issuer, targeting the revenue-sharing model enabled by the GENIUS Act.
Date: 2026-02-25
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
The OCC implementation NPRM released in February 2026 explicitly targets the Coinbase/Circle USDC revenue-sharing model as a potential violation of the GENIUS Act’s interest prohibition.
Date: 2026-02-25
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
In March 2026, Coinbase and Senate Banking Committee leadership reached a specific 'deal' on stablecoin yield language to resolve a standoff that had stalled the market-structure CLARITY Act.
Date: 2026-03
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
The GENIUS Act was signed into law on July 18, 2025, and includes a dual-licensing regime that allows nonbank issuers to be chartered as 'Federal Qualified Payment Stablecoin Issuers' (FQPSIs) by the OCC.
Date: 2025-07-18
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
Evidence gap: The list of outside counsel firms that participated in drafting the GENIUS Act on behalf of Coinbase, Circle, and other industry stakeholders has not been disclosed.
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
The GENIUS Act establishes a federal payment-stablecoin regime with reserve composition rules and a dual federal/state issuer-licensing structure.
Date: 2024-04-17
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
S.4155 (the GENIUS Act) was introduced by Sen. Bill Hagerty on 17 April 2024 with Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, Cynthia Lummis, and Tim Scott as original co-sponsors.
Date: 2024-04-17
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
The GENIUS Act explicitly preempts certain state-level money-transmission requirements for federally-licensed payment stablecoin issuers, advantaging incumbent issuers with the resources to pursue federal licensure.
Date: 2024
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
The bill structure tracks the high-level architecture advocated by the Coinbase, Circle, and broader crypto industry policy filings throughout 2023-2024.
Date: 2024
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
Senate Banking Committee markup of the GENIUS Act in 2024 occurred during a cycle in which the Fairshake PAC network spent heavily in primaries involving Senate candidates positioned to vote on the bill.
Date: 2024
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
S.4155, the GENIUS Act of 2024, was introduced by Sen. Bill Hagerty on 17 April 2024 with Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, Cynthia Lummis, and Tim Scott as original co-sponsors.
Date: 2024-04-17
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
The GENIUS Act establishes a federal regulatory regime for payment stablecoins, including reserve requirements and a dual federal/state issuer-licensing structure.
Date: 2024-04-17
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
The Fairshake super-PAC network's 2024 spending was concentrated in races involving members positioned to vote on the GENIUS Act and related digital-asset legislation.
Date: 2024
Added: 03 May 2026
Pending Review
GENIUS Act filed filing with the SEC on 2026-03-09. Accession number: N/A.
Date: 2026-03-09
Added: 12 Apr 2026