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Treasury Opens a State Path for Stablecoin Oversight Under the GENIUS Act

An interim rule lets states file certifications before their own rules are finished, as a San Francisco Fed study put issuers' Treasury holdings near 200 billion dollars.

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What happened

The US Treasury published interim procedural rules for the state stablecoin certification process under the GENIUS Act, setting out the application forms and review procedures ledgerinsights.com. The rule, dated 30 September, establishes the forms and review procedures for the Stablecoin Certification Review Committee, which conducts the reviews kucoin.com.

Its practical effect is to stop the clock running out on states. The rule lets states preserve a path toward approval of their stablecoin regimes while their own rules remain unfinished, by filing an initial certification cryptonews.net. Conditional or incomplete state certifications may meet the initial filing timing while legislative or regulatory work continues cryptoslate.com. States may submit initial certifications for review even while their rules are still unfinished binance.com. It was issued as an interim rule covering the certification process kucoin.comledgerinsights.com.

Why it matters to investors

The rule also draws a size line through the market. The threshold it enforces locks Tether and Circle, the two largest issuers, out of the state pathway entirely forkast.news. That is a structural decision about who can compete through which supervisor, rather than a procedural one, and it was the first rule issued under the act forkast.news.

The reason this reaches beyond crypto is the balance sheet. A San Francisco Fed Economic Letter found that stablecoin issuers added about 200 billion dollars in Treasury-related holdings over five years thedefiant.io. Issuers added about 200 billion dollars in US Treasury holdings across that period tokenpost.com. The Treasury has said issuers' short-term Treasury holdings are near 200 billion dollars en.bloomingbit.io.

What to watch

The Fed study framed that growth as partly offsetting China's retreat from Treasuries, which turns stablecoin reserves into a question about the demand side of US government funding rather than a question about digital assets thedefiant.io. Existing research has already shown that demand from stablecoin issuers for Treasury securities is large enough to exert a measurable impact kucoin.com.

Two things follow. The first is whether the bid keeps growing: Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan said the stablecoin market will grow much further en.bloomingbit.io. The second is where in the curve it sits, because the holdings are concentrated in short-term paper rather than spread along it en.bloomingbit.io. A supervisory regime that decides which issuers may operate in which state is therefore also, indirectly, a decision about the composition of demand at the front end of the Treasury market forkast.newsledgerinsights.comkucoin.com.

Sources

  1. kucoin.com: Treasury Allows States to File for Stablecoin Review Before Finalizing Rules - KuCoin (2026-10-01)
  2. cryptonews.net: Treasury will let states file for stablecoin approval before finishing their rules - Cryptonews.net (2026-10-01)
  3. cryptoslate.com: Treasury will let states file for stablecoin approval before finishing their rules - CryptoSlate (2026-10-01)
  4. ledgerinsights.com: Treasury publishes state stablecoin certification procedures under the GENIUS Act (2026-10-01)
  5. forkast.news: Treasury's First GENIUS Act Rule Draws a $10 Billion Line Through the Stablecoin Market (2026-10-01)
  6. thedefiant.io: Stablecoin Treasury Growth Partly Offsets China's Retreat, SF Fed Study Finds | The Defiant (2026-10-01)
  7. tokenpost.com: Stablecoin Issuers Add $200 Billion in Treasury Holdings Over Five Years - TokenPost (2026-10-01)
  8. en.bloomingbit.io: Bitwise CIO Says Stablecoin Market Will Grow Much Further - bloomingbit (2026-10-01)
  9. kucoin.com: San Francisco Fed Report: Stablecoin Issuers Add $200 Billion in U.S. Treasuries Over Five Years (2026-10-02)
  10. binance.com: Treasury Rule Lets States File Initial Stablecoin Certifications Before Rules Are Final (2026-10-01)