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Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins ActSection 10 › Proposal

Providing self-custody hardware or software is outside the section

To provide for the regulation of payment stablecoins, and for other purposes, section 10, Sec. 10. Written by .

Providing self-custody hardware or software is outside the section

The document says “shall notWho acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 10 in the PDF
What the document says

“The requirements of this section shall not apply to any person solely on the basis that such person engages in the business of providing hardware or software to facilitate a customer's own custody or safekeeping of the customer's payment stablecoins or private keys.”

To provide for the regulation of payment stablecoins, and for other purposes, Sec. 10

Subsection (e). The exclusion turns on the word solely: providing the hardware or software alone does not bring a person within the section. Section 3(h)(1)(C) makes a similar point about transactions by means of a wallet that facilitates an individual's own custody.

What the document actually says

“The requirements of this section shall not apply to any person solely on the basis that such person engages in the business of providing hardware or software to facilitate a customer's own custody or safekeeping of the customer's payment stablecoins or private keys.”

To provide for the regulation of payment stablecoins, and for other purposes, Sec. 10
That sentence, in plain words

This part does not reach a firm that only sells the tools. Those are the tools people use to hold their own coins or keys.

What this is about

A wallet is such a tool. It can be an app or a device. Making one does not by itself make a firm a keeper of assets.

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