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Kirsten Gillibrand: “If you're going to call yourself a payment stable coin, you…”

Featuring: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Accelerate USA 2026: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Sen. Ruben Gallego

Published | Video Starts at 12:44

Well, Genius was easier because it was smaller. Stablecoins is a very discrete one type of digital asset. And our goal in that legislation was simply to say If you're going to call yourself a payment stable coin, you need to be stable, meaning you have to have a dollar or a dollar equivalent sitting in a US bank account that is FDI insured. so that it is a stable market. Not an algorithmic asset, not something that is fly by night. Something that's stable can be relied on and used as value worldwide. (12:44–12:56)

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