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Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins ActSection 8 › Proposal

A foreign issuer's stablecoin may be traded here only if it can obey a lawful order

To provide for the regulation of payment stablecoins, and for other purposes, section 8, Sec. 8. Written by .

A foreign issuer's stablecoin may be traded here only if it can obey a lawful order

The document says “may notWho acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 8 in the PDF
What the document says

“A payment stablecoin that is issued by a foreign payment stablecoin issuer may not be publicly offered, sold, or otherwise made available for trading in the United States by a digital asset service provider unless the foreign payment stablecoin issuer has the technological capability to comply and complies with the terms of any lawful order.”

To provide for the regulation of payment stablecoins, and for other purposes, Sec. 8

Subsection (a)(1). The condition has two halves: the capability to comply, and actual compliance. Lawful order is defined in section 2(16). Section 3(b)(2) states a bar in similar terms, and section 4(a)(6)(B) sets the matching condition for a permitted payment stablecoin issuer.

What the document actually says

“A payment stablecoin that is issued by a foreign payment stablecoin issuer may not be publicly offered, sold, or otherwise made available for trading in the United States by a digital asset service provider unless the foreign payment stablecoin issuer has the technological capability to comply and complies with the terms of any lawful order.”

To provide for the regulation of payment stablecoins, and for other purposes, Sec. 8
That sentence, in plain words

A coin from a maker set up abroad may not be traded here. A digital coin firm may not offer it. The bar lifts only if the maker can obey a court order and does.

What this is about

The order can tell a maker to freeze or destroy coins. Part 2 says what counts as one. The maker must have the tools and must use them.

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