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Today, stablecoins already move real money and power a large share of on-chain settlement. McKinsey puts daily stablecoin transaction volumes at roughly $30 billion, and if that figure is even close to reality, calling stablecoins “experimental” is absurd. Still, mass adoption isn’t here.
Summary
Stablecoins aren’t blocked by regulation — they’re blocked by liability: businesses won’t adopt payments where responsibility for errors, disputes, and compliance is unclear.
Interoperability, not speed, is the real scaling bottleneck: without standardized data, ERP integration, and consistent exception handling, stablecoins can’t function as real business payments.
Wyoming’s governed stablecoin shows the path forward: defined rules, auditability, and institutional accountability de-risk stablecoins and make them usable inside real finance workflows.
When nobody owns the liability
To be honest, the fact that stablecoins are drifting has less to do with businesses not “getting” the technology. They understand the mechanism. The real block is a blurry responsibility model.
In traditional payments, the rules are dull, but dependable: who can reverse what, who investigates disputes, who is liable for mistakes, and what evidence satisfies auditors. With stablecoins, that clarity often disappears once the transaction leaves your system. And that’s where most pilots fail.
A finance team can’t run on guesswork about whether money arrives, whether it gets stuck, or whether it comes back as a compliance problem three weeks later. If funds go to the wrong address or a wallet is compromised, someone has to own the result.
In bank transfers, that ownership is defined. With stablecoins, too much is still negotiated case by case between the sender, the payment provider, the wallet service, and sometimes an exchange on one side. Everyone has a role, yet no one is truly accountable — and that’s how risk spreads.
Regulation is supposed to solve this, but it’s not fully there yet. The market is getting more guidance, especially in the U.S., where the OCC’s letter #1188 has clarified that banks can engage in certain crypto-related activities like custody and “riskless principal” transactions.
Wyoming’s blueprint for governed stablecoins
In my opinion, liability and plumbing become solvable the moment a payment system has two things: a set of rules, and a standard way to plug into existing finance workflows. That’s where Wyoming precedent matters. A state-issued stable token gives the market a governed framework that a business can evaluate, reference in contracts, and defend in front of auditors.
Here’s what that framework opens up for businesses in more detail:
Easier approval from finance and compliance. Adoption stops depending on a few “crypto-friendly” teams and starts working through normal risk committees, procurement rules, and audit checklists.
Cleaner integration. When “the rules of the money” are defined at the institutional level, you can build repeatable workflows that work across systems and markets, instead of reinventing the setup for every vendor and jurisdiction.
More realistic bank and PSP partnerships. The model aligns more closely with fiduciary expectations, such as tighter oversight, more transparent reserve rules, and accountability that can be written into contracts.
