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Trump Signs the GENIUS Act, July 18, 2025

July 18, 2025 · The White House · 0:39:28

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What happened

President Donald Trump signed S.1582, the GENIUS Act, into law at the White House on July 18, 2025, at a ceremony carried on the White House channel and attended by digital-asset industry leaders the President recognized from the stage, among them Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, Dave Ripley of Kraken, Jeremy Allaire of Circle, Paolo Ardoino of Tether, Vlad Tenev of Robinhood, and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss of Gemini.

“I pledged that we would bring back American liberty and leadership and make the United States the crypto capital of the world. And that’s what we’ve done,” the President said. A speaker for the bill described its mechanics from the same stage: the Act “will unlock American dominance in the crypto industry by creating clear rules of the road,” back each digital dollar with a traditional dollar in a U.S. bank account, and thereby “create trillions of dollars of demand for U.S. Treasuries,” as he stated it — “U.S. dollar dominance.”

Why it matters

The GENIUS Act signing is the administration’s stablecoin framework made law: the first federal rules-of-the-road statute for dollar-backed digital assets, signed on camera with the industry in the room — the legislative centerpiece of the President’s crypto-capital pledge.

Scoreboard candidate

Scoreboard candidate: the GENIUS Act signing of July 18, 2025 — a bill signing flagged for the scoreboard editors; the entry itself remains review-gated. The White House’s industry-reaction clip and its two short signing clips of this ceremony are recorded as alternates of this page.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Participates in a Signing Ceremony for S.1582 GENIUS Act” (official upload, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by the President and by the bill’s presenter. Alternate IDs recorded: qQ6FWKjLVGA (industry leaders respond), T93mrBUUp58 and W3P06ZgYynM (White House signing clips).