stable coins
By Sydney TheCMO
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What the Banking Lobby Actually Fears. The banking lobby's core worry is displacement. If consumers and businesses can hold and move…
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Stablecoins and the Case for Evidence-Based Regulation. What Saxe is really asking for is a higher evidentiary bar.
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Ryne Saxe wants Congress to back off. The CEO of Eco is pushing hard against the banking lobby's campaign to slow down stablecoin legislation, calling the industry's concerns…
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Saxe's argument is pretty direct: stablecoins are a genuine leap forward for payment infrastructure, and letting lobbyists kill that progress based on speculative threats would…
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Not really a neutral position. But he's not trying to be.
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The banking lobby's core worry is displacement. If consumers and businesses can hold and move dollar-denominated value through stablecoins — without touching a bank account —…
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But Saxe's point is that theory isn't evidence. The lobby is asking Congress to restrict a technology based on what might happen, not what has happened.
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He also flips the risk framing. The real danger to community banks, he argues, might not be stablecoins at all. It's probably the refusal to adapt.
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Unclear whether that argument is landing in Washington. The debate is still very much live.
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See also: Bank of England Drops £20,000 Stablecoin Cap, Sets £40 Billion Ceiling
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What Saxe is really asking for is a higher evidentiary bar. Don't restrict the technology because a lobby says it's scary.
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Stablecoin adoption has grown sharply across multiple markets in recent years, driven partly by demand for dollar access and partly by the genuine friction in existing…
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And that's exactly why the regulatory window matters. Get the rules right now, and stablecoins can scale inside a framework that protects consumers and doesn't blow up community…
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Saxe's push is for Congress to move forward on stablecoin legislation without letting unproven fears drive the outcome. He's not arguing for zero regulation.
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