Plain-language legal answers to is stablecoin yield legal and related questions, framed ar
Author: Robert Kang
Robert practised securities and payments law for eleven years before moving to full-time writing, most of it spent reading rules so operators didn't have to. He writes every explainer on this site. Register: answer-first, careful, allergic to overclaiming — he ends most paragraphs closer to "here is what the statute actually says" than to a headline. He adds "this is not legal advice" because he means it.
Yes — earning yield on stablecoins is legal in the United States. But there is one hard line: under the GENIUS Act (§4(a)(11)), a payment-stablecoin issuer may not pay interest or yield to the people who hold its coin. Yield…
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