Circle exec to join US Congressional committee hearing on stablecoin payments, legislation

April 16. 2023

By Arijit Sarkar

The Financial Services Committee issued a memorandum to announce an upcoming hearing titled “Understanding Stablecoins’ Role in Payments and the Need for Legislation.”

The United States House Committee on Financial Services will hold a hearing on April 19 to discuss stablecoins’ position as a means of payment and whether the ecosystem needs supporting legislation.

The committee issued a memorandum to announce an upcoming hearing titled: “Understanding Stablecoins’ Role in Payments and the Need for Legislation.” The hearing will include information collected by various federal government agencies over the last year.

Participants testifying at the hearing include Circle’s chief strategy officer and head of global policy, Dante Disparte. Last month, on March 11, Circle’s in-house stablecoin offering, USD Coin (USDC $1.00), depegged from the U.S. dollar after it revealed it had $3.3 billion of funds stuck at the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).

However, following a bailout of SVB depositors by the U.S. government, USDC repegged its value to the U.S. dollar. During this timeline, hackers managed to gain access to Disparte’s Twitter account and started promoting fake loyalty rewards to long-time users of USDC.

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