👉🔥Why do stablecoins represent an existential threat to the banking system?🏦
Stablecoins not only compete with banks; they are hacking the very concept of financial intermediation. Their threat is existential because they attack the three pillars of the traditional banking model: custody, speed, and sovereignty.
First, they provoke aggressive disintermediation. ⛓️💥In a world of low rates or inflation, users prefer to move their liquidity to DeFi protocols where the digital dollar yields more than a stagnant savings account. This empties bank deposits, the raw material with which banks generate loans.
Second, technological obsolescence. While an international transfer takes days and charges absurd fees, a stablecoin settles in seconds for a fraction of the cost, 24/7. The bank ceases to be the "toll" necessary to move value.
Finally, systemic risk: being mostly backed by Treasury bonds, stablecoins have created a bridge where capital flees from local regulatory control to a programmable global ecosystem. If money becomes code that banks do not control, they go from being protagonists to mere on/off ramps. It's not just competition; it's the replacement of the centralized ledger with a distributed and free one.🚀
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