The concept of STABLECOINS to compete with FED dollars is intriguing to me.
The GENIUS of stablecoins (pun intended) is even better.
How do you get stablecoins?
You give a stablecoin company Federal Reserve Notes and they issue you an equal amount of stablecoins. Then you use those stablecoins to transact with other people.
Does that sound familiar?
That's a bank!
But wait there's more
The GENIUS Act requires:
"100% reserve backing with U.S. dollars and short-term Treasuries, or similarly liquid assets as determined by the primary regulator."
banking.senate.gov/newsroom/major…
Stablecoin companies have to have 100% reserves! Guess that the reserve requirement for banks has been since 2020?
0%
Read that again... 0% Zero Nothing.
But stablecoin issuers will have to have 100% reserves.
Stablecoin issuers will be more capitalized banks.
Additionally, guess who is the regulator of nonbank stablecoin issuers?
The Comptroller of the Currency, who sits in the Treasury Dept.
So, bye bye Fed, SEC, FDIC and all other "independent" regulatory bodies. This regulator will fall under the executive branch. No more unelected bureaucrats.
tl;dr: Stablecoin issuers will be better capitalized banks regulated by the Treasury Dept. Wins all around.
If that weren't enough, the GENIUS Act also allows for state created and regulated stablecoin issuers... Can you say competition!
We will look back in a few years and realize that the GENIUS Act was a transformational piece of legislation that secured and reigned in our out-of-control (and likely insolvent) banking system.