📅 January 27
One of the world's largest and most respected banks, Standard Chartered, warns that dollar-denominated stablecoins are not only growing: they are beginning to drain the very heart of the banking system—deposits.
📖The analysis stems from a larger projection: Standard Chartered estimates that the global stablecoin market could reach $2 trillion by the end of the decade. Of that total, approximately one-third would come directly from deposits currently held in traditional banks.
The bank notes that this migration is not uniform, but it is inevitable as payments, transfers and other core functions of the financial system move to blockchain-based infrastructures.
In this context, regulatory uncertainty in Washington surrounding the Clarity Act has generated a direct clash between large banks and crypto companies like Coinbase, which initially withdrew its support for the project because it considered that it affected the incentives to issue and hold stablecoins.
This warning is not abstract. Standard Chartered analyzed which types of banks would be most vulnerable and found that those whose income depends heavily on the net interest margin—that is, the use of deposits to make loans—would face the greatest pressure if customers begin moving their money into digital versions of the dollar.
Topic Opinion:
If this happens on a large scale, the traditional deposit-taking model becomes irrelevant. And when a bank loses deposits, it loses its ability to generate loans, interest, and operational stability.
💬 Would you move your money from the bank to a dollar stablecoin if it were just as secure?
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