Shares of the first publicly-traded stablecoin company Circle continued to surge on Friday after the Senate passed legislation that would establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a value in line with the U.

The crypto dam didn’t break with a bang. It cracked with a vote. On Tuesday, the Senate passed the GENIUS Act with a strikingly bipartisan 68-30 tally. For a country that’s spent years lobbing political grenades across the aisle,

Congress passed the GENIUS Act this week, boosting the market for stablecoins. Here's what investors need to know about the corner of the crypto market.