Methodology · United States (GENIUS Act)

How the US tracker is built. All data is official; our calculations are marked.

Sources

• NYDFS, Virtual Currency Business Licensing: the “Regulated Entities” table (39 rows), the Greenlist and notices of voluntary surrender, transcribed on 21 Oct 2026. DFS blocks automated downloads, so this is a dated snapshot that we re-read by hand.
• OCC interpretations and decisions: every charter decision whose text describes digital-asset activities of the bank (17 decisions), with the bank's proposed activities quoted from the decision, and Supervisory Condition Letter 2026-01 (Anchorage).
• Federal Register API: documents mentioning “GENIUS Act”, refreshed on each build; we keep those with “stablecoin” or “GENIUS” in the title (20 on 21 Oct 2026).
• The Act: Congress.gov and the GPO compilation; Treasury's interim final rule for the effective date.

Source Hierarchy

1. official NYDFS, OCC, Federal Register, the Act.
2. company the firm's own release (none used in the US hub so far).
3. press · secondary none used.

Labels

• OCC national bank: an operating OCC-chartered bank with crypto activities (Anchorage).
• NYDFS licensed + OCC approval: on DFS's list and holding an OCC conditional approval.
• NYDFS licensed: on DFS's list (BitLicense, BitLicense plus money transmitter licence, or limited purpose trust charter).
• OCC conditional approval: conditional or preliminary conditional charter approval only. It is not permission to operate.
• Not on either list: major firms we track with no DFS entry and no OCC decision. This says nothing about licences in other states.
• Stablecoin issuance: whether the OCC decision describes stablecoin issuance by the bank (“plans”), says the bank will not issue (“will not”), or does not mention it.
• Type: the strongest authorisation on record: national trust bank (OCC), NY trust charter, BitLicense plus money transmitter licence, BitLicense.
• Brands: we group DFS rows and OCC decisions under one brand only where the legal name or the decision names the brand (for example Bridge Ventures LLC, “a Stripe, Inc. company”).

Limits

• Licences and charters from other states (money transmitter licences, state trust and bank charters) are not covered yet.
• DFS gives month and year only for the date granted.
• Our calculations: 18 July 2028 (3 years after enactment) and days left.

Corrections

Write to press@vasptracker.com with the page and the source. Published corrections: none.