{"id":594561,"date":"2026-05-02T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/?p=594561"},"modified":"2026-05-02T05:39:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:39:35","slug":"genius-act-stand-off-phantom-consensys-oppose-occs-stablecoin-yield-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/genius-act-stand-off-phantom-consensys-oppose-occs-stablecoin-yield-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"GENIUS Act stand-off: Phantom, Consensys oppose OCC\u2019s stablecoin yield ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DeFi platforms have opposed the plans to ban stablecoin yield via third-party apps.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a comment to the OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency), Phantom Wallet and Consensys slammed the agency for going against the stablecoin law, the GENIUS Act.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marisa Tashman Coppel, assistant general counsel at Phantom, argued that the GENIUS Act only bans stablecoin issuers from offering interest. This is meant to prevent them from functioning as uninsured deposits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, she added that the OCC\u2019s proposal to extend the ban to third parties goes \u2018beyond what the statute says.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The OCC&#8217;s anti-evasion authority doesn&#8217;t give it a blank check to rope in unrelated parties acting on their own commercial judgment.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_594566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-594566\" style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-02-101801.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-594566\" src=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-02-101801.png\" alt=\"OCC GENIUS Act stablecoins\" width=\"587\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-02-101801.png 587w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-02-101801-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-02-101801-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-594566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>Stablecoin yield fight extends to the GENIUS Act \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here, critics argue that stablecoins deposited in DeFi are active investments. So if the user puts USDC into a venue like Aave, the yield accrued is from the DeFi venue. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similar to other deposited assets, like BTC, it comes with risk. So the yield is not from Circle, the issuer of USDC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As such, third parties, especially DeFi platforms with such arrangements aimed at competing for customers, shouldn\u2019t be targeted. Consensys, the firm behind the MetaMask wallet, supported the Phantom, noting that,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The GENIUS Act itself carves non-custodial software interfaces out of regulated intermediary status. The final rule should confirm this applies to DeFi access as well.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consensys called for the OCC to differentiate between \u2018user incentives\u2019 and \u2018yield,\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/consensys.io\/blog\/commentary-to-treasury-department-regulation-of-stablecoin-issuance-and-distribution?\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">adding<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congress drew this line deliberately, and twice rejected amendments that would have extended the prohibition to non-issuers. The OCC&#8217;s rule should respect that line.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The GENIUS Act was passed into law last July and should be implemented by July this year. Relevant regulators, including the OCC, have begun rulemaking to beat the deadline.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the stablecoin yield issue, which has derailed the broader crypto market structure bill, the CLARITY Act, is now being raised during the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/u-s-banking-group-want-more-time-on-genius-act-stablecoin-rules-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rulemaking process<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the GENIUS Act.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For banks, this was good news. In their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aba.com\/about-us\/press-room\/press-releases\/ABA-State-Bankers-Associations-Urge-OCC-to-Close-Yield-Loopholes-in-Stablecoin-Rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">letter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to OCC, the American Bankers Association (ABA) said,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The OCC should issue a broad prohibition because Congress required one, and because the evidence shows that anything less will not work.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In part, this is why the crypto industry accepted the recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/move-on-beyond-greed-white-house-blasts-banks-over-stablecoin-yield-opposition\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stablecoin yield compromise<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. For the sector, the deal would still have the interest via third parties intact. Whether the latest update will be a deal breaker remains to be seen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Final Summary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phantom and Consensys have slammed the OCC for overreach amid a proposed broader ban on stablecoin yield on third parties.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bankers are supporting OCC\u2019s broader stablecoin yield prohibition, warning that \u2018anything less will not work.\u2019<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banks backed OCC to go forward with the strict and broad yield ban rules <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":594574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,3,4,5825,20],"tags":[6427],"class_list":["post-594561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-news","category-news","category-social","category-stablecoins","category-trading-view","tag-ambcrypto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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