2026-03-17 21:23:37

.@tether making a US-regulated stablecoin might give crypto the use-case it never had

> sending $500 to your family across a border still costs 6.5% in fees.
> SWIFT takes 4 business days, and every bank in the chain takes a cut you never see.
> ACH doesn't work weekends. initiate Friday, lands Tuesday.
DeFi fixed the speed, but no one IRL can read a TX hash and everyone in crypto hates doing their taxes by scrolling through thousands of transaction across multiple wallets.
a regulated programmable dollar fixes both sides. instant, borderless, readable by humans AND machines.
the compute layer goes decentralized.
the money layer goes programmable.
the middlemen become optional.

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