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BREAKING: BofA, Citi, Goldman Sachs among 21 institutions planning stablecoin launch

For years the world's biggest banks left the market for digital dollars to crypto firms.

Now twenty-one of them are building their own.

Citi, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and a row of European names including Deutsche Bank, UBS and Santander said on Tuesday they'll build a shared stablecoin together.

They're setting up a new company later this year to issue it, starting with a US dollar token and adding a euro one after.

The plan is to have it live in the first half of 2027, aimed at cross-border payments and settling trades between institutions.

Ten-odd banks were "exploring" the same idea back in October.

The list has since more than doubled, and now it has a timeline, a company and a purpose.

What changed in between is the GENIUS Act, the US stablecoin law that finally spelled out what a compliant dollar token has to look like.

Once the rules were on the books, the exploring turned into a launch plan.

Circle's USDC and Tether's USDT already move most of the world's stablecoin dollars, and they built that lead while the banks sat out.

The banks' pitch is the one thing those two can't fully match: reserves, regulation and balance sheets the rest of finance already trusts.

Earlier this summer many of the same banks went on a tokenisation offensive, wiring up a shared network to settle tokenised stocks and bonds.

The stablecoin is the cash leg of that same machine, the dollar that moves when the asset does.

Circle and Tether won the market while it was still a grey area.

The banks waited for it to turn legal, then walked in with the customers already inside the building. 🚀

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Ray Dalio spent last week pointing at the one market that's now doing exactly what he warned it would.

He's the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world, and the most studied voice on long-term debt cycles alive today.

His prescription for crypto holders came down to four words.

Dalio's watching the bond market lose its footing.

Japan has been trimming its pile of US Treasuries, long-dated yields keep grinding higher, and the dollar's been slipping underneath it all.

In his framework, that's the tell.

When a government's interest bill and refinancing needs outrun the appetite for its debt, yields have to climb to find buyers.

From there the only exits are higher rates or a printing press, and he rates neither as good.

This week the bonds obliged.

Japan's long-dated yields hit levels unseen in three decades, and global long bonds are back at their highest since 2008.

So he'd underweight bonds, hold 10-15% in gold, and keep a bit of Bitcoin alongside it.

The logic is that assets no government can print hold their value when currencies get debased.

Gold is still his bigger hedge, Bitcoin the smaller, riskier one.

He's made this call before and admits it looked early, comparing himself to a doctor whose diet warnings get ignored until the heart attack lands.

The bond selloff is the chest pain.

You don't have to buy his three-year clock to take the point.

When the safest asset on earth has to pay up like it hasn't in nearly two decades just to find buyers, a bit of Bitcoin reads less like a punt and more like insurance. 🧭

Today we’re looking at BTC Risk, a simple way to gauge where we are in the cycle.

BTC Risk compresses years of price action into a number between 0 and 1:

It doesn’t call exact tops or bottoms. It shows you when risk-reward is tilted in your favour.

Current BTC Risk: 0.447 (two weeks ago: 0.374)

Still climbing, and at the same steady clip.

BTC Risk rose from 0.374 to 0.447 this fortnight, a 0.073 move almost identical to the 0.074 jump the read before it.

Two fortnights, two matching steps higher, tracking the price up to $80,000.

At 0.447 the metric still sits below the 0.5 midpoint, so a discount remains, but it’s the thinnest since the floor.

The cheap window that rewarded patient buyers back in the 0.30s has all but closed.

From here the read is less a bargain signal than a reminder that the low-risk entries came and went while the market was still fearful. 📈

Crypto treasury companies hit $340 billion market cap as altcoin DATs outperform. The cumulative market cap of these companies is up 10% since mid-August, hovering around $340 billion as altcoin-focused vehicles outperform.

Robinhood's new crypto network is printing cash, and it's sending Arbitrum's token soaring. Revenue on Robinhood Chain hit a 24-hour record of $1.9 million, driving a 30% rally in the Arbitrum token.

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Buys $37 Million in Bitcoin and Payments Firm Block. Ark bought 456,059 Block shares across three ETFs and added $3.4 million of Circle stock on the day.

SEC proposes broad update to decades-old transfer agent rules with blockchain nod. The proposal would modernize rules largely unchanged since the 1980s to cover blockchain recordkeeping and tokenized securities.

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