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In the first senior central-bank framing of dollar stablecoins as geopolitical infrastructure, Carolyn Wilkins laid out the incentive chain that links private digital money to US Treasury demand, digital dollarisation, and the future of monetary power — on the same day the CLARITY Act died in the Senate.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
xAI is charging $30 a month for a service that costs at least $71 to host. The math is a bet on infrastructure arbitrage, aggressive subsidization, and the hope that token costs will fall fast enough to outrun the burn rate.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The CEA released an interactive tool debunking the banking lobby's deposit flight narrative 30 minutes before the Senate vote. It wasn't enough.
◆ Nolan Pratt
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Tucked into the CLARITY Act's 635-page final draft, a new provision lets the Treasury Secretary throttle stablecoin rewards if community banks bleed deposits — but the trigger is undefined and the clock is already running.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The BRICS summit is debating CBDC interoperability while Circle launches production-ready stablecoin infrastructure. The timing reveals which approach actually ships.
◆ Nolan Pratt
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The Cash App parent filed for an OCC national trust charter to custody bitcoin and stablecoins under federal preemption – joining a charter wave that now has three distinct lanes.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The Senate votes on crypto legislation Monday. Circle launches its institutional blockchain Tuesday. The money already decided which calendar matters.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Circle will discontinue USDC and CCTP V1 on Noble by January 2027, with no V2 upgrade path. For the ecosystem that relied on Noble to unify its stablecoin liquidity, the institutional pivot just hit home.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Federal Reserve staff have released an analytical framework for classifying stablecoins as money, signaling that the central bank is preparing to measure the assets that Wall Street is already building.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The first foreign bank to offer tokenized deposit cross-border payments in Japan joins a pattern where banks build proprietary blockchain infrastructure rather than waiting for legislative clarity.
◆ Nolan Pratt
