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fromCointelegraph
22 hours ago

How US banks are quietly preparing for an onchain future

Instead, they are methodically rebuilding core financial plumbing, including payments, deposits, custody and fund administration, so these services can operate on distributed ledgers. The work is incremental, technical and often invisible to retail customers, but it is already reshaping how large institutions think about money movement and settlement. Rather than embracing unregulated crypto assets, banks are focusing on tokenization, the process of representing traditional financial claims, such as deposits or fund shares, as digital tokens recorded on a ledger.
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fromWIRED
3 months ago

The Loophole Turning Stablecoins Into a Trillion-Dollar Fight

Stablecoin rewards may pressure banks to raise deposit rates while legislation forbids stablecoin issuers from paying interest to protect bank deposit bases.
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