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GENIUS Act and MiCA will split stablecoins
The GENIUS Act and MiCA are creating a bifurcated stablecoin market between Tier-1 "constitutional cash" tokens with strict redemption rights, liquid reserves, and no-yield provisions designed to prevent bank-like runs, and Tier-2 "synthetic cash" products that behave like money in calm markets but reprice as risk assets during redemption stress. MiCA reserves the authority to throttle stablecoins that achieve excessive payment ubiquity as a financial stability measure, while GENIUS explicitly bans yield to prevent digital dollars from mimicking uninsured deposits. The most critical unresolved vulnerability is cross-border "multi-issuance" structures where single stablecoin brands are issued by multiple legal entities across jurisdictions, creating concentration risk if global redemption runs overwhelm the jurisdiction with the strongest legal rights.
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