Sponsors
11 Democrat
Dick DurbinSenator · IL
This legislation prohibits federal agencies from providing financial assistance, bailouts, or emergency liquidity to digital asset market participants. The prohibition applies to digital asset intermediaries, service providers, distributed ledger protocols, decentralized finance (DeFi) trading protocols, and traditional financial institutions engaging in digital asset activities. Additionally, it explicitly bars these entities from accessing emergency liquidity facilities under the Federal Reserve Act and prevents the use of the Exchange Stabilization Fund for their benefit.
This bill represents a restrictive regulatory effort to structurally isolate the cryptocurrency industry from the broader United States financial safety net. By explicitly prohibiting federal agencies from providing financial assistance to digital asset intermediaries, service providers, and DeFi protocols, the legislation seeks to ensure that taxpayer-funded resources are never used to rescue failing crypto firms. While framed as a measure to protect taxpayers from absorbing market losses, the practical impact is the institutionalization of a dual-tier financial system where crypto-native firms are excluded from standard emergency liquidity protections. Denying access to the Federal Reserve’s emergency liquidity facilities under Section 13(3) and the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund removes vital stabilization tools during periods of systemic market stress. This targeted exclusion increases the operational and systemic risks for financial institutions that integrate digital assets, potentially discouraging traditional banks from servicing the crypto sector due to the lack of a regulatory backstop. Consequently, the bill acts as a punitive barrier to the mature integration of digital assets within the regulated financial system, elevating the risk of abrupt liquidations and banking friction for lawful crypto enterprises.
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