{"id":276518,"date":"2025-04-07T23:39:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/us-sec-says-stablecoins-arent-securities-that-require-registration\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T23:39:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:39:50","slug":"us-sec-says-stablecoins-arent-securities-that-require-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/us-sec-says-stablecoins-arent-securities-that-require-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"US SEC Says Stablecoins Aren\u2019t Securities That Require Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/Ripple_Labs_main_1689313443467.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"US SEC Says Stablecoins Aren\u2019t Securities That Require Registration\" title=\"US SEC Says Stablecoins Aren\u2019t Securities That Require Registration\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stablecoin issuers and exchanges got a boost Friday from the Securities and Exchange Commission after the agency&#8217;s staff determined that the assets, generally, aren&#8217;t securities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That means they won&#8217;t have to be registered with the markets regulator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The determination applies as long as a crypto asset is backed by a stable currency such as the US dollar, a commodity like gold or a pool of other assets, the staff\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/newsroom\/speeches-statements\/statement-stablecoins-040425#_ftnref5\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>\u00a0in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SEC just drew a clear line: <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/stablecoin\">stablecoins<\/a> backed 1-for-1 with high quality liquid assets \u2014 like <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/usdc\">USDC<\/a> \u2014 are NOT securities,\u201d Heath Tarbert, president of stablecoin provider Circle Internet Group, said in an emailed statement. \u201cThis certainty does not extend to other digital assets just because they call themselves \u2018stablecoins.&#8217;\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A definitive decision about whether a stablecoin must be registered with the SEC still must be done on a case-by-case basis, the SEC said in a footnote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The determination is likely to help <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/cryptocurrency\/news\/us-stablecoin-regulation-bill-approval-house-financial-services-committee-8079605\">stablecoin legislation<\/a> and a forthcoming digital asset market-structure bill move through Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>House and Senate versions of a stablecoin bill already have been reported out of committee. The House Financial Services Committee is set to hold its first hearing on a market-structure bill next week.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9\u00a02025\u00a0Bloomberg LP<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/cryptocurrency\/news\/sec-stablecoins-not-securities-require-registration-8107796#rss-gadgets-news\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stablecoin issuers and exchanges got a boost Friday from the Securities and Exchange Commission after the agency&#8217;s staff determined that the assets, generally, aren&#8217;t securities.\u00a0 That means they won&#8217;t have to be registered with the markets regulator.\u00a0 The determination applies as long as a crypto asset is backed by a stable currency such as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/Ripple_Labs_main_1689313443467.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[607],"tags":[1165,213624,8353,22625,37994,6352,11746,93296,3390,213623,94622],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276520,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276518\/revisions\/276520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}