Stablecoins Are Becoming Modern Financial Infrastructure | Opinion
And they are increasingly being used to do things that traditional financial rails can’t do: move money quickly and efficiently, 24/7. Last year, roughly $33 trillion in transaction volume moved through stablecoins, a scale that illustrates how far the technology has come.Stablecoins began largely as a tool to trade crypto. Today, banks, financial technology companies, payment providers and other financial institutions are exploring them as another way to move dollars.
- ▪And they are increasingly being used to do things that traditional financial rails can’t do: move money quickly and efficiently, 24/7.
- ▪Last year, roughly $33 trillion in transaction volume moved through stablecoins, a scale that illustrates how far the technology has come.Stablecoins began largely as a tool to trade crypto.
- ▪Today, banks, financial technology companies, payment providers and other financial institutions are exploring them as another way to move dollars.
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National Cryptocurrency AssociationBy Stu AlderotyPresident, National Cryptocurrency Association0ShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberSee more of our trusted coverage when you search.Prefer Newsweek on Googleto see more of our trusted coverage when you search.For years, the crypto conversation has been dominated by questions about coin prices, speculative trading and whether digital assets would ever have a place in mainstream finance. But now the conversation is finally catching up to the technology.The next chapter of crypto will have much less to do with speculation and much more to do with something that is core to crypto's promise: how money moves.Read More on OpinionStablecoins are digital assets designed to maintain a stable value, typically by being backed by U.S.
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