Popular Science: Why is the United States Strongly Supporting Stablecoins???

The core mechanism of stablecoins is to allow U.S. multinational corporations to convert their cash into U.S. Treasury bonds or issue stablecoins backed by assets. This way, companies can "eat from both ends": earning interest on U.S. Treasuries while collecting fees from stablecoins, and revitalizing previously inefficient assets.

For the U.S. government, this is akin to finding new "buyers" for U.S. Treasuries. In the past, foreign central banks were the main buyers of U.S. debt, but now countries are de-dollarizing and turning to gold, making it difficult for U.S. Treasuries to sustain themselves. Meanwhile, corporations, non-profit organizations, and wealthy individuals hold a large amount of dollars or cash equivalents, and the stablecoin mechanism mobilizes this money to lend to the U.S. government, filling the hole in the fiscal deficit.

Compared to the past when money was deposited in banks, which would then lend it out or buy bonds, companies can now directly purchase U.S. Treasuries to issue stablecoins, bypassing banks. This is safer and more efficient and avoids systemic risks similar to those posed by interest rate fluctuations that affected banks like Silicon Valley Bank. This effectively undermines the traditional intermediary role of banks and transfers part of the "coinage authority" to corporations.

If companies issue stablecoins on a large scale, it essentially means U.S. companies are lending dollars to the U.S. government. On one hand, this withdraws dollars from the market, reducing M2 and alleviating inflation; on the other hand, it stabilizes the demand for U.S. Treasuries, lowers interest rates, reduces borrowing costs, and simultaneously stimulates the economy, creating a two-way balance between liquidity and interest rates.

Why are companies willing to do this? Because it is a low-risk, dual-return business. Companies like Amazon, Walmart, and Starbucks have long engaged in implicit financing through gift cards, which are essentially dollar equivalents but do not earn interest. Stablecoins not only earn interest but also allow participation in DeFi for high returns, circumventing regulations and increasing liquidity. This will attract users to hold stablecoins issued by companies, further encouraging corporations to acquire more dollars in the market to issue new coins.

In summary, the stablecoin mechanism mobilizes idle dollars worldwide, allowing the U.S. Treasury system to continue operating while reducing risks in the financial system. U.S. companies use stablecoins to achieve financial expansion, while banks are gradually marginalized. This is a new round of self-rescue plan for the U.S. to maintain dollar hegemony and the debt bubble.