Why Every Company Will Have a Stablecoin — and Why One L2 Isn’t Enough - Ep. 912

Why Every Company Will Have a Stablecoin — and Why One L2 Isn’t Enough - Ep. 912 – Unchained

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Bullish

STABLES— Stablecoins will grow to many trillions of dollars as they become the dominant form of global money movement, with 10-20% of all global payments shifting to tokenized rails within 1-3 years
DAPP— The crypto market will shift from infrastructure focus to applications and use cases as the key value driver, with direct user acquisition becoming the winning strategy
INFRA— Financial infrastructure will be transformed as tokenized rails capture a significant portion of global money movement over the next few years
PAYMENTS— Cross-border payments represent one of the first and most viable use cases for stablecoins, solving real problems in international money movement
NEOBANKS— Neobanks will benefit from building competitive products on stablecoins, potentially issuing their own to capture treasury yields

Bearish

LAYERTWO— The L2 infrastructure market is oversaturated with 500+ competing chains fighting for limited users, leading to inevitable consolidation as most L2s lack differentiation
USDC— Circle's business model faces disruption due to their focus on AUM and control over blockchain issuance, which prevents many stablecoin use cases from being economically viable
USDT— Tether's AUM-focused model with high burn fees makes many payment use cases economically unviable, limiting stablecoin market growth potential
BANKS— Traditional banks face rapid disruption from stablecoins transforming the financial infrastructure

Not investment advice.