In answer to Wall Street bank lobbying, crypto group Stand With Crypto said it enlisted its online members to send a message more than 250,000 times to the U.S. senators in their states, pushing back on the bankers' attempt to stymie the avenue for stablecoin rewards in the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act.
The letter crafted by Stand With Crypto — a U.S. pro-crypto member organization initially established by Coinbase — urges lawmakers to ignore the banking advocates who launched an August effort to rewrite the law to completely shutter stablecoin issuers' ability to offer yields to users.
"Lawmakers chose to protect rewards because you know they are for consumers," according to the form letter set up to be automatically sent to politicians