Coinbase CEO Brain Armstrong said updated market structure legislation may offer banks other benefits to get them on board with allowing stablecoin rewards.
Coinbase CEO Brain Armstrong said updated market structure legislation may offer banks other benefits to get them on board with allowing stablecoin rewards. PALM BEACH, Fla. — Banking trade groups, rather than individual banks, are chiefly responsible for stalled negotiations on crypto market structure legislation, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said.
Banks themselves are looking at crypto as an opportunity, he said Wednesday at the World Liberty Forum hosted at Mar-a-Lago. "For whatever reason, sometimes incumbent industries have trade groups, and they view the world with a zero-sum mindset for the banks to win, crypto has to lose," he said. "They're not viewing this as a positive ." Banking trade groups have represented the industry in meetings with the crypto industry hosted by the White House since the Senate Banking Committee's push to advance market structure legislation last month fell apart. The latest such meeting, which took place last week, saw the banking industry holding the line on its demands that the bill block stablecoin rewards.Armstrong said he did expect some sort of compromise where banks would have new benefits under a fresh draft market structure bill, though he did not elaborate. When the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act stalled the night before a Senate Banking Committee hearing, it was after Armstrong publicly withdrew his company's support. In the current talks, the Coinbase co-founder argued that individual small and medium-sized banks did not really fear deposit flight to stablecoin issuers, but rather said their more urgent concerns were with deposit flight to larger banks. Major banks are leaning into crypto as well, he said, adding that Coinbase is supporting crypto infrastructure for "five of the largest banks in the world.""We now live in this world where we have regulated U.S. stablecoins with rewards," he said. "You have to accept that as a reality and decide if you want to treat that as an opportunity or as a threat." Prediction market outcomes are being used as inputs for how players deal with traditional financial markets, NYSE President Lynn Martin said at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday.Optimism's OP token falls after Base moves away from the network's 'OP stack' in major tech shift
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