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The Senate Banking Committee will hold a meeting Thursday to mark up crypto legislation that further fulfills many of President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s promises to his crypto billionaire friends. In racing to\u00a0finish the crypto industry\u2019s wish list before midterms, Congress should remember what happened the last time crypto impacted legacy banking. We\u2019ve seen this movie before \u2014 and taxpayers paid for the tickets.<\/p>\n

Last September, as ranking member of the Senate\u2019s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations<\/a>, I released a 292-page report documenting how three major American banks received dubious audits indicating they were sound \u2014 just before their catastrophic failures cost bank customers millions.<\/p>\n

Our investigation gave us a unique window into how crypto can quickly move from innovation to contagion. Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank raked in profits when venture capital and crypto boomed, but they all learned that tech money comes fast but leaves even faster \u2014 threatening the stability of banking and leaving taxpayers and investors on the hook for losses. These bank failures<\/a> provide a chilling warning for anyone backing the crypto lobby\u2019s efforts to further cement the unsavory world of crypto into the American economy.<\/p>\n

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Silicon Valley Bank collapsed following the failure of the trading firm FTX, the downturn in the Bitcoin market and the shuttering of crypto-focused Silvergate Bank. In early 2023, as their bets unraveled, crypto industry insiders pushed for bailouts<\/a> \u2014 fueling panic that accelerated bank runs. The resulting turmoil threatened major technology companies and millions of depositors, ultimately requiring federal intervention to the tune of $340 billion to quell fear of contagion. Even then, more than $54 billion in stocks and bonds became worthless when the banks collapsed, including $700 million that one pension fund lost in a single day. Unless Congress acts to put some guardrails on the recently passed GENIUS Act, it will only be a matter of time before the industry is clamoring for bailouts again.<\/p>\n

The historic speed of deposit flight at these banks demonstrated how modern finance is getting faster and more reckless, especially with the introduction of crypto firms into the banking system. Technology made banking faster, and it made failure faster too. More crypto in the banking system supercharges the systemic risk of financial instability. Signature Bank is a clear example: it collapsed after their substantial crypto-related deposits flooded out of the bank in the months after the collapse of FTX. The complexity and opacity of crypto markets<\/a> also undermines traditional oversight. Signature Bank\u2019s auditors failed to grasp the risks and repeatedly assured the public everything was fine year after year. But opacity isn\u2019t a bug of crypto \u2014 it\u2019s the business model.<\/p>\n

Now, the crypto industry has spent millions trying to lobby Congress and the Trump administration<\/a> to forget the past and allow them to take over banking and write their own investment rules. Crypto is encouraging American consumers to abandon traditional bank accounts in favor of “digital dollars” called stablecoins. The industry is even trying to replace savings accounts through offering “yield” on tokens \u2014 the crypto equivalent of interest. While this new form of digital currency may sound appealing, stablecoins lack basic safeguards that protected the depositors at Silicon Valley Bank when it failed in 2023.<\/p>\n

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the ensuing turmoil should have been a lesson: keep crypto far from our financial system. Silicon Valley Bank\u2019s collapse wasn\u2019t the fault of a few bad managers or reckless reports from a single auditor. The cozy audits these banks received for years lays bare a fundamental principle of finance \u2014 recklessness thrives when profits are private and losses are public.<\/p>\n

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Even now, crypto markets are in turmoil. Since the GENIUS Act passed last summer, half a dozen major stablecoins have \u2018de-pegged,\u2019 de-linking from the currency they claim to have a 1:1 relation to, wiping out hundreds of millions of dollars for anyone holding the tokens. But this is just a small beginning. The current market for stablecoins is approximately $300 billion. The CEO of Coinbase recently projected that it could quadruple by 2030. Considering what crypto volatility did to regional banks in 2023 after the collapse of FTX, what threats could it pose when millions of Americans\u2019 life savings and more banks are dependent on crypto?<\/p>\n

My investigation revealed Signature Bank\u2019s auditors joking with each other as the bank collapsed.\u00a0 They thought its management was foolish because they relied on crypto to boost their numbers and “look cool \u2026 and wonder why they\u2019re crumbling as the floor drops out.” That casual cynicism captures the deeper failure exposed by the 2023 bank collapses: when crypto-driven risk is profitable, those charged with policing it will look away.<\/p>\n

As the Senate Banking Committee prepares to mark up a crypto market structure bill, Congress should remember that the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was not an accident \u2014 it was a preview. That failure exposed how crypto-linked deposits, digital-speed bank runs and opaque markets can overwhelm regulators before risks are visible. Yet the legislation now under consideration would push more of that volatility deeper into the financial system under the guise of innovation and clarity. If lawmakers fail to confront the lessons of 2023, they will be locking in the same frailties that forced taxpayers to step in once before \u2014 and will inevitably be asked to do so again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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