stablecoin bill – criticism
Former House Financial Services (HFS) and Senate Banking Committee witnesses – with both pro- and anti-crypto POVs – issued sharp criticism of the “Lummis-Gillibrand Payment Stablecoins Act” introduced yesterday by Senators Cynthia Lummis (R, WY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D, NY).
Columbia University professor and Zero Knowledge Consulting founder Austin Campbell, who appeared as an industry witness at the April 2023 HFS Digital Assets Subcommittee hearing “Understanding Stablecoins’ Role in Payments and the Need for Legislation”, sees problems with the Lummis-Gillibrand stablecoin bill.
On X, Campbell begins with the “nerdy” issue of the bill’s stablecoin reserve requirements which including physical cash, bank deposits, “90 day or less T-Bills, and repurchase agreements of up to 7 days,” according to Campbell.
He then breaks out at least four areas of concern beginning with: “First, we have a serious technical problem, which is applying the limitation to specific T-bills instead of the portfolio: always do the portfolio people! You don’t want someone going all the way out to 90 days with everything. 60 day or less weighted average maturity for the entire portfolio, please.”
Read Campbell’s tweet thread. Continue reading “New Stablecoin Bill Attracts Criticism; Fed Releases CBDC Research -With A Footnote”