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The digital assets industry has achieved milestones at breakneck speed in its rise to mainstream prominence over the past few years. While the recent approval of Coinbase\u2019s trust bank application may appear to be just another milestone, it has drawn pushback from the traditional banking sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) went so far<\/a> as to call the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) conditional approval of Coinbase\u2019s application \u201ca grave mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the heart of the ICBA\u2019s concerns is the possibility that Coinbase could gain access to the federal banking system without bearing the same regulatory burdens as traditional banks. Because Coinbase wouldn\u2019t be subject to Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) requirements, the group also questioned what would happen to customer assets in the event of the company\u2019s failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For its part, Coinbase emphasized in a blog post<\/a> that it has no intention of becoming a commercial bank. The firm stated it will neither accept retail deposits nor engage in fractional reserve banking. Instead, it aims to use the trust bank charter to bring federal oversight to its crypto custody and market infrastructure operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not an Unprecedented Move<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a leader in the digital assets industry, Coinbase\u2019s approval is significant\u2014but not unprecedented. Circle, Ripple, Paxos, and Bridge have all received conditional trust bank approvals<\/a> in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, these firms are more focused on stablecoins and therefore fall under the oversight framework established by the GENIUS Act<\/a>, which governs U.S. stablecoin issuers. Their trust bank charters allow them to issue stablecoins, hold digital assets, and manage reserves under federal supervision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeking Universal Rules<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a crypto custodian, Coinbase could also become subject to the CLARITY Act if it is enacted. The bill, which targets non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies, has already passed the House of Representatives but has stalled in the Senate\u2014largely due to opposition from Coinbase<\/a> over restrictions related to tokenized equities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the pause in the CLARITY Act\u2019s progress, Coinbase has reiterated its longstanding support for comprehensive digital asset regulation\u2014a position widely shared across the crypto industry, in part to address lingering misconceptions about the sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was a perception for a period of time that the larger field of crypto was kind of like the wild, wild west,\u201d James Wester<\/a>, Director of Cryptocurrency and Co-Head of Payments at Javelin Strategy & Research, said in a recent PaymentsJournal podcast<\/a>. \u201cYet, there have been companies over the last many years that saw the value of crypto, digital assets, stablecoins, blockchain, and tokenized assets\u2014and were begging for regulatory clarity. They were saying that there\u2019s an efficiency gain here; there are cost reductions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s so surprising is how willing and able companies in the space were to say, \u2018Now that there\u2019s clarity, we\u2019re happy to look at compliance; we are happy to look at regulation; we are happy to look at governance\u2014because we were always willing to do that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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