Ripple Labs Gets NYDFS Approval for RLUSD Stablecoin

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Ripple Labs has secured approval from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) for its RLUSD stablecoin, as announced by CEO Brad Garlinghouse. The stablecoin, pegged 1:1 to the U.S. dollar, will be backed by USD deposits, short-term U.S. Treasury bonds, and other cash equivalents.

Following testing on XRP Ledger and Ethereum mainnets since August, RLUSD will be available on multiple exchanges including Uphold, Bitstamp, Bitso, MoonPay, Independent Reserve, CoinMENA, and Bullish. Market makers B2C2 and Keyrock will provide liquidity support for the token.

Monica Long, President of Ripple, describes RLUSD as complementary to Ripple's existing XRP token, while the company projects ambitious growth, estimating the stablecoin could reach a $2 trillion market capitalization by 2028. The stablecoin enters a competitive market currently valued at $192.8 billion, with Tether leading at $141 billion.

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GOLDEN NUGGET

How do you comply to 𝗣𝗖𝗜 𝗗𝗦𝗦 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 requirements?

It largely depends on the number of transactions your business processes during the year. By this parameter, all merchants are divided into 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘀:

𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 1️⃣ covers businesses handling more than 6 million Visa, Mastercard, or Discover transactions, more than 2.5 million American Express transactions, or more than a million JCB transactions.

A company will also be consigned to this strictest compliance level if it has recently experienced a data breach, regardless of transaction volumes.

To achieve Level 1 compliance, you must:

► conduct quarterly vulnerability scans, involving approved scanning vendors (ASVs);

► have an onsite audit done by an external auditor who will prepare a Report of Compliance (RoC);

► and complete an Attestation of Compliance (AoC) form.

Businesses that fall under all other levels don’t need to invite third-party auditors for annual onsite checks. Instead, they file an appropriate Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) that helps companies validate their compliance with PCI DSS.

𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 2️⃣ is for one to six million Visa, Mastercard, or Discover transactions, 50,000 to 2.5 million AmEx transactions, or fewer than a million JCB transactions.

The compliance entails doing quarterly vulnerability scans and completing SAQ and AoC forms. Sometimes they also must have an RoC issued.

𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 3️⃣ ranges from 20,000 to one million Visa, Mastercard, or Discover transactions or fewer than 50,000 AmEx transactions annually.

They still undergo quarterly scanning by an ASV, complete an annual SAQ, and submit an attestation of compliance.

𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 4️⃣ relates to less than 20,000 Visa or Mastercard transactions.

The validation typically involves quarterly network scans by an ASV and completing an annual SAQ and AoC.

I highly recommend the complete deep dive article by AltexSoft for more interesting info on this topic.

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