The Senate of the US state of Virginia approved a bill that will allow banks to provide crypto custody services in case they have enough resources to manage possible risks. Governor Glenn Youngkin is expected to sign the document in 7 days.
Related: Texas banks will be able to store customers’ crypto
This means that customers can trust banks to safe keep assets and provide custody. The bill allows banks in Virginia to hold the keys to a user's crypto wallet.
According to the bill definition, virtual currency is an electronic representation of value that is used as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value existing on the blockchain and distributed ledger technology.
The bill was proposed by Chris Head, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. In an interview with Fox Business, the politician said that he came up with the idea in the summer of 2021 after Texas regulators gave legal status to crypto.