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US Treasury Department Starts Work on Genius, Gathering Views on Illicit Activity

The New Stablecoin Law Called for the Treasury Engagement on Detecting Illicit Crypto Activity, So The Department Is Opening A Comment Period.”, – WRITE: www.coindesk.com

The New Stablecoin Law Called for the Treasury Engagement on Detecting Illicit Crypto Activity, So The Department Is Opening A Comment Period.Updated Aug 18, 2025, 6:10 pm PUBLISHED AUG 18, 2025, 6:09 PM

The US Treasury Department is Seneking New Ideas for Detecting and Cutting Off Illicit Crypto Activity As It Begins to Put the New Stablecoin Law Into Effect.

The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for Us Stablecoins (Genius) Act – The First Major USA Law to Erect a Regulatory System in The Crypto Space – Called For Government Accan Digital Assets, and the Treasury Department Is Asking for Public Comments “To Identify Innovative or Noveel Methods, Techniques, or Strategies that Regulated Finan USE, TO DETECT Illicit Activity, Such As Money Laundering, Involving Digital Assets. ”

The Crypto Sector Will Have A 60-Day Comment Window to Share Industry Views on Clamping Down on Shady Crypto Use, Account to the Department’s Request on Moday.

The Genius Act Is Now Entering Into Is Typical A protraCted Period of Implementation WHEN A NEW FINANCAL-REGULATION LAW ENTers of the Federal Agencies that NEEED TOTO. The US Banking Regulations, Such As the Office of the CompTroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Will Also Have Policies to Work Out in the Future Oversight of Stablecoin Issuers.

But Genius Was Only the FIRST AND LESS Significant Piece of the Two-Part Legislative Priority for the Crypto Industry. The Sector Still Awaits Further Action from Congress on the Bill That Wuld Set Up Guardrails for the Wider Digital Assets Markets. The House of Representatives Was in the Lead in Recently Passing Its Digital Asset Market Clarity Act With A Wide Bipartisan Vote, But When the Senate Returns from ITS. Under A Slightly Different Approach than the House.

President Donald Trump HAS PUSHED HIS ADMINISTRATION INTO RAPIDLY CRAFTING CRYPTO-FRIENDLY policies, Issuing Multiple Execulet Orders and Statements DRIVING FEDERAL REGATORS. Legal Challenges from the US Government. Agency Heads Such as Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins have Suggested that Can Can Get Som of the Work Done Even Beng Congress Finishes ITS CRYPTO TASKS.

Read More: Trump Signs Genius Act Into Laww, Elevating First Major Crypto Effort to Become Policy

Jesse Hamilton

Jesse Hamilton is Coindesk’s DEPUTY Managing Editor On the Global Policy and Regulation Team, Based in Washington, DC Before Joinga Coindesk in 2022, He Worked For More Thon. News and Businessweek, Writing About the Early Whisperings Among Federal Agencies Trying to Decide What to Do About Crypto. He’s Won Several National Honors in His Reporting Career, Including from His Time As A War Correspondent in Iraq and As A Police Reporter for Newspapers. Jesse is a graduate of Western Washington University, WHERE HE STUDIED Journalism and History. He have no crypto holdings.

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