A stablecoin issuer application is a regulatory filing for authorization to issue payment stablecoins in the United States. This guide covers OCC licensing, eligibility, documentation, capital requirements, and approval timelines for prospective issuers.

Payment stablecoin custody rules establish how OCC-supervised institutions must safeguard stablecoins, reserve assets, and private keys. This guide covers GENIUS Act requirements, customer protections, and compliance obligations for issuers and custodians.

Foreign stablecoin issuer rules establish how overseas payment stablecoins can enter the U.S. market under the GENIUS Act. This guide covers OCC registration, Treasury comparability reviews, consumer protection, reserve requirements, and compliance obligations for issuers and service providers.

Stablecoin issuer reporting requires regulatory disclosures covering reserves, issuance, redemptions, and financial condition. This guide explains the OCC's 2026 reporting framework, deadlines, forms, and requirements for banks and payment stablecoin issuers.

A stablecoin issuer waiver provides temporary regulatory relief for eligible payment stablecoin issuers awaiting OCC approval. This reference explains application requirements, deadlines, reserve obligations, redemption standards, and foreign issuer rules for compliance teams and financial institutions.

Crypto processing allows businesses to accept digital currencies through blockchain payment systems. This reference explains stablecoin checkout, payment gateways, settlement options, transaction costs, and compliance requirements.

Mercuryo is a cryptocurrency payment infrastructure provider dedicated to connecting traditional currencies with blockchain knowledge networks. In collaboration with Tangem, Mercuryo allows eligible users to purchase USDC and XLM on Stellar during a limited-time promotion without incurring platform fees.

Zero Hash provides regulated infrastructure that connects fiat currencies, cryptocurrencies, and stablecoins. This information is intended for users interested in its card partnership with Marqeta, regulatory coverage, and its increasingly important role in the stablecoin payment sector.

BIS crypto policy supports regulated tokenization and programmable money while calling for safeguards around stablecoins, liquid reserve assets and financial stability. It examines how real-world assets, traditional finance and digital currencies can lower costs and mitigate risks. This is a concise reference to BIS crypto policy covering stablecoins, tokenized assets, commercial bank money, banking rules, cross-border payments and financial stability risks.

Bank stablecoin regulation sets boundaries between payment stablecoins and bank deposits, covering issuer licensing, 1:1 reserve assets, liquidity, AML compliance, consumer protection and banking-system risks.

The GENIUS Act creates the first federal framework for U.S. payment stablecoins. These 10 rules cover licensed issuers, 1:1 reserves, redemptions, yield, state oversight, foreign issuers, AML and crypto platforms.

U.S. stablecoin legislation now establishes federal rules for payment stablecoin issuers, including 1:1 reserves, disclosures, redemption standards, state oversight, foreign issuers and compliance requirements.

The MAS stablecoin framework is Singapore’s regulatory framework for eligible single-currency stablecoins, with requirements covering reserve assets, capital, redemption and disclosure.

Paolo Ardoino is the chief executive officer of Tether and former chief technology officer of both Tether and Bitfinex, central to the growth of USDT as the largest dollar-backed stablecoin by market capitalization. Under Ardoino, Tether International has evolved into a company building global financial infrastructure on public blockchains-not just issuing a single token.

Yes. Ethereum users can effectively pay gas with stablecoins when a wallet, app, or sponsor covers the underlying ETH network fee and receives stablecoin reimbursement. EIP-8141, planned as a headliner for the 2027 Hegotá upgrade, would bring this gas-payment abstraction closer to Ethereum’s protocol layer.