Stablecoins are the new digital dollars. #Ethereum is the railway they run on.
Fed Governor Stephen Miran — who could one day succeed Powell — just said the surge in stablecoins may structurally lower U.S. interest rates.
1️⃣ Stablecoins (like USDC & USDT) are exploding in market cap — now >$240 B. They move money globally in seconds.
2️⃣ To back each token, issuers buy short-term U.S. Treasuries → constant demand → lower yields → lower r★ (neutral rate).
3️⃣ ~70 % of stablecoins run on Ethereum. Every time someone moves them, they pay fees in ETH. Those fees burn ETH forever.
4️⃣ More stablecoin adoption = more ETH burned = less supply + higher utility.
What’s happening: Treasury’s cash pile (TGA) just hit $1 T — the only other time this happened was during COVID.
Why: Massive debt issuance + spending freeze = liquidity trapped at the Fed. Money’s parked, not circulating.
Reversal odds: High — once the gov’t reopens or QT ends (Dec), that cash floods back into markets.
Impact: A $1 T liquidity wave could supercharge risk assets.
Crypto—being the most liquidity-sensitive—could rip first.
Cryptocurrencies are falling because:
1) China-US tension
> Key Next Event: APEC summit, October 31 (Trump & XI meeting)
- Mitigant: Trump posted on Truth social that everything is going to be fine
2) Regional Bank Lending Concerns
> Key Next Event: October 28-29 FOMC meeting
- Mitigant: FED backstopping like it happened with Silicon Valley Bank & significant dry powder in private credit markets
3) Worries of AI driven bubble:
> Key Next Event: NVIDIA’s Q3 2025 earnings release in late November
- Mitigant: Large corporation are just beginning to organize their internal directories to benefit from LLMs connectors. We are very early in the adoption phase.
4) Persistent Inflation and Geopolitical Uncertainty
> Key Next Event: October 17 Trump & Zelensky meeting |October 28-29 FOMC meeting | APEC meeting Trump / XI on October 30th
- Mitigant: No one wants a war and there are signals from all the parties from China/Russia/Ukraine that their national interest sits outside of war and retaliatory trade escalations.
Gold is just a yardstick of the aforementioned risks building momentum. That’s it. Bitcoin is still a risky asset (most of fund managers are boomers) and younger investors have still a long way to go before establishing as the dominant financial force in the markets.
@OzakAGI@ReidPax when will the token become tradeable? What is the roadmap? Who are the founders? What is the tech behind? Please disclose this if you want real backing
@frankdegods Big tech (Facebook, NVIDIA) are valued for their expected dominance in AI and because they are a large share of the S&P the index falls and crypto follow along when this dominance is threatened.
When P/E ratios are so high every small blow is a big shake in market caps.