When the congress last month adopted the so-called “Genius Act” about the stablecoin legislation with two-part support, it led to a new wave of speculation about how much this dollar could cause packed crypto tokens, including fears for fraud, tax development and instability.
Those who go back on the Crypto-Cassandras have put forward much more benign predictions and claim that, in view of their limited retail use, stabbing firmly in the esoteric financial world, so that every potential negative impact on the wider economy is damped.
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But these instruments are demonstrably the most important part of the financial system: the American Treasury market.The key to the new legislation is a requirement that stablecoins – so far are usually used by crypto traders to move funds between tokens – are fully supported by liquid assets such as cash or short -term treasury accounts. Publisher is also obliged to announce the composition of those reserves every month. And with a market capitalization of more than $ 250 billion that could explode within three years on the basis of some estimates, Stablecoins can pack a serious systemic punch.
Ironically, the link to treasuries actually offers one of the more positive version of the Stablecoin phenomenon. Some of his proponents claim that it will generate the proportional demand for American treasury drawings as Stablecoins expand and enable the American government to more easily load his emerging new debt issue, the expiry of the adulthood profile of his debts. By doing this, the long -term debt yields can leave relatively undisturbed, even if the American deficits expand.
That seems like a nice turn.
As it looks now, the amount of the outstanding bills is around $ 6 trillion, just over one fifth of the outstanding debts of the treasury and still among historical averages as a share in the total market.
Everything else, if both the Stablecoin question and the issue of the bill would expand by $ 1 trillion in the coming three years, the invoice share of the treasury market would only come back to where it was about 20 years ago – a solution that seems reasonable to have a reasonable period.
However, there is a catch. A large part of the money that goes to Stablecoins is only diverted from elsewhere, such as bank deposits or money market funds that are already directly or indirectly on the basis of the debts of the treasury. The effect of stablecoins on the treasury market can therefore be much more limited than first thought.
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More difficult to pars is the extent to which mushrooms can influence stablecoins in the broader financial system.
As analysts at Cross Border Capital point out, it can create a token that can be spent directly as a banknote, but is supported by effects with average durations of a few months or more, theoretically a significant impact on the liquidity of the market.
In fact, the Stablecoin transforms a basket with treasury accounts and notes in an immediate active duration.
However, two major compensatory functions apply.
The lack of retail use for them means that the impact on the liquidity of the Real-World or consumer prices can be limited and the speed liquidity boost is left in the financial world-most clearest in crypto markets themselves and broader asset prices in the margins. Dangerous bubbles can of course blow here, but participants are at least at their own risk.
The second point is that although stablecoins can add liquidity, they, unlike banks, do not actually expand the amount of money through lending and lending creation.
And if the money that flows to them is only from bank deposits, then there is a risk that the expansion of Stablecoins could reduce the credit extension at banks and weigh on the speed of money in the economy in general.
“It is unlikely that the Genius Act will unleash a credit tree from the seventies, but it does indicate a shift in WHO the delivery of money from banks to a more explicit public-private hybrid system,” concluded the Cross Border Report. “Most action will be on the financial markets, not in the Hoofdstraat.”
Fiery critics of Stablecoins fear that this runs the risk of changing into a return for private money that could be spent by the government that could be just as susceptible to corruption, fraud, panic and instability when it was last in the 19th century.
And crucial is that disinter mediation of the regular banking system can on time undermine the assets of the Federal Reserve to regulate liquidity and money in the wider economy.
But as long as this phenomenon remains largely the domain of the esoteric financial world, those dornier problems remain largely theoretically. The size and growth of this universe is less care than its integration with the real world.
(The opinions here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters)
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