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The debate is no longer whether stablecoins “work” or not. The real fight is who captures the yield of money, who controls the payment rails, and which institutions lose deposits when capital migrates to faster, programmable, and 24/7 infrastructures.
If today you look at this market only as “crypto,” you are missing the bigger picture. What is changing is much larger: the U.S. financial system is redesigning the transport layer of the dollar. And when that happens, they are not just competing:

The shock originates in energy and geopolitics, it is amplified by interest rates and the dollar, and ultimately separates crypto into two groups:

and liquidity withstands better; the speculative beta absorbs the blow.
We are not witnessing a simple market drop. We are seeing a reordering of hierarchy.
When an energy shock enters through the Strait of Hormuz, it does not stay in oil. It moves to expected inflation, then to bond yields, then to a strong dollar, and finally lands where it hurts the most: Nasdaq, leverage, and altcoins. In that circuit, Bitcoin does not behave like a miraculous asset; it behaves like the highest quality asset within a universe of risk.