Crypto-Skeptic Sen. Sherrod Brown Is Open to Advancing Stablecoin Legislation, Bloomberg Reports
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Stablecoins boost demand for U.S. Treasury notes, Howard Lutnick, the CEO of Tether custodian Cantor Fitzgerald, said.
Rapidly expanding stablecoin supply shows that “fiat money is being moved into crypto at an accelerated pace,” 10x Research’s Markus Thielen said.
XRP has plenty of internet fans but Ripple has struggled to win real enterprise customers. Will its new stablecoin fill the gap and overshadow its existing token?
The stablecoin issuer’s BTC holdings now top 75,000 tokens worth about $5 billion.
We need to start thinking of blockchains as infrastructure for financial innovation rather than concentrating on the prices of a few digital assets, like bitcoin and ether, says WisdomTree’s digital of digital assets, Benjamin Dean.
The Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group is also considering the impact of tokenization on domestic markets.
Circle cited its “risk management” framework as part of the decision, among other factors.
UK Economic Secretary to the Treasury Bim Afolami has said the UK government was “pushing very hard” to bring legislation for stablecoins and staking services for crypto assets within six months, according to a Bloomberg report.
USDT’s appeal relative to other stablecoins will likely diminish as regulations will require more transparency and compliance with new anti-money laundering standards, the report said.