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Stablecoins Now Cover 40% of the Treasury Gap China Left Behind
A quiet theme runs through today's stories: infrastructure quietly becoming leverage, whether it's digital dollars propping up US debt, parked EVs propping up power grids, or driverless trucks and robots finding regulatory gaps to move fast through.
Here's what matters across the frontier today.
Stablecoins quietly replace China as a major US debt buyer
Circle and other stablecoin issuers now hold more than $120 billion in US Treasury bills, the short-term government debt that backs every digital dollar they issue. That sum has effectively replaced about 40% of the Treasury purchases China has stopped making as its own holdings decline. What started as plumbing for crypto trading has become something closer to sovereign financial infrastructure, with a private company's balance sheet now mattering to how Washington funds itself. For a generalist, the takeaway is that stablecoins have grown from a crypto curiosity into a genuine lever in US government financing, which raises the stakes on how they get regulated.
