Federal Reserve is the governing body of the Federal Reserve System, the U.S. central bank established by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, overseeing the 12 Federal Reserve Banks and sharing responsibility for supervising and regulating certain financial institutions. Federal Reserve's Twitter Score is 174 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #3,202 (top 1%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Federal Reserve is also affiliated with the Federal Open Market Committee and reports to Congress. In its payments infrastructure role, Federal Reserve launched the FedNow Service on July 20, 2023, enabling individuals and businesses to send instant payments through U.S. depository institution accounts with interbank clearing and settlement available near real-time, around the clock, every day of the year.
Federal Reserve has been active in shaping policy around crypto-assets, stablecoins, and digital payments. On August 8, 2023, the Federal Reserve Board provided information on a novel activities supervision program covering bank activities involving crypto-assets and distributed ledger or blockchain technology, along with a process for certain dollar token or stablecoin activity by state banks it supervises. On April 24, 2025, the Federal Reserve Board announced the withdrawal of guidance for banks related to crypto-asset and dollar token activities, rescinding advance-notification expectations for state member banks' crypto-asset activities and rescinding the supervisory nonobjection process for state member bank dollar token activities. On August 15, 2025, the Federal Reserve Board announced it would sunset its novel activities supervision program and return to monitoring banks' novel activities through the normal supervisory process.
Federal Reserve has explored the benefits and risks of a U.S. central bank digital currency through research and experimentation, stating that a CBDC would represent a digital liability of the Federal Reserve and would be the safest digital asset available to the general public, carrying no associated credit or liquidity risk. Federal Reserve has stated it has made no decision on whether to pursue or implement a U.S. CBDC. Federal Reserve's account has 1,540,575 followers as of July 2026 and has published 11,691 posts. Federal Reserve has been mentioned by 1,324 accounts a total of 10,334 times.
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