Who controls the dollars once they leave the Fed?

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Some important considerations for Agents🥷 x402 is real- but almost all of it is single garden. Agents pay APIs in USDC on Base, Solana, and now Arc. Circle Gateway batches the signatures. CCTP moves the same coin from one circle chain to another Circle chain. That is reprinting Circle, not a traveling dollar. Checkout works because the catalog is written in USDC. That is the current state. It is not the end state. Most agents will not be U.S. persons. The next clerk will not be a Circle Mint account. It will be a Canton party, a DTC twin, a Prime line, a foreign deposit book, an invoice in a different currency than a Circle dollar. Those books do not credit a garden specific coin. They only take cash - or they take a house that already faces them. XRPL is built for that second job. One fee, known in advance. Native DEX in the payment: send RLUSD, deliver XRP, or the other way, no bridge. Ripple Prime already posts RLUSD as the cash sleeve next to BNY tokenized deposits. DTC twins settle to a participant so the agent doesn’t need a DTC seat. It needs a house that has one - and a coin that house will take. So the split is simple. Today: USDC wins the checkout because the seller already listed it. Next: RLUSD on XRPL wins landing when there is no Circle account left to credit - and when the invoice is not a dollar on Circle’s floor. Agents can't wait at every network border for a new reprint. They need a coin that can walk🚶‍♀️‍

Ripple SVP of Stablecoins, Jack McDonald, will take the stage alongside Visa and Canton Network at the UC Berkeley Future of Finance Summit on Oct 2. Key topics on deck: · Real-world settlement & payment rails · Programmable money evolution · Enterprise liquidity & adoption With ethereum:0x8292bb45bf1ee4d140127049757c2e0ff06317ed on the horizon and institutional utility expanding, the payments stack is undergoing a massive shift.

This guidance builds on earlier 2026 interpretations and Regulation Crypto Assets proposals, providing staff views on when non-security tokens (like many stablecoins) can exit investment contract treatment once functionality or decentralization thresholds are met. For agents and the traveling-dollar, it adds regulatory certainty around reserved coins versus club money, helping define which objects can land on regulated books like DTC or Prime without triggering securities requirements.

2026 Q2 Z.1 Statistics - Gross and Net Repo The books still don’t close 📖 Gross Chart Assets $8,669B Liabilities $7,165B Discrepancy $1,504B Assets = Liabilities + Discrepancy Q1 → Q2: assets +$328B, liabilities +$408B, discrepancy −$80B. The Repo market got bigger. The unnamed offshore borrowers got a little smaller. Still running about ~$1.5T. Who holds it (assets): MMF repo $3,075B (35.5%) · dealers $2,077B · ROW $1,727B · FBOs $448B · US banks $354B · GSEs $298B · SLGs $242B Who admits owing it (liabilities): Dealers $3,116B · ROW $2,341B · FBOs $495B · Fed $381B · REITs $331B · US banks $259B Net Chart (Assets − Liabilities ) Sector nets sum to the same discrepancy. That is the tell. Net long: MMF repo +$3,075B (no L.207 liability). GSEs +$298B. SLGs +$242B. US banks +$96B. Net short: dealers −$1,039B · ROW −$614B · Fed −$381B · REITs −$331B. Unidentified: −$1,504B (discrepancy) On the net chart that discrepancy residual is 38% of the short side. Of gross liabilities it is 21%. Of assets, 17% L.121 / L.206 still balance: MMF assets = MMF shares = $8,441B. Households own most of the shares. Those funds own $3.1T of repo. MMF shares have identified owners. The repo component does not, not fully. What it suggests: the cash is real. The named borrowers are not a fully identifiable set. Bilateral / NCCBR / offshore affiliate books can show up as an MMF asset - but vanish as a U.S. sector liability. ROW is already inside the table (−$614B) and it is still not enough to fill the gap. It’s not that “repo is fake.” The assets are sitting on the MMFs balance sheet. It’s the actual issuer of the Repo that is part that is missing

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“The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy.” — Milton Friedman

There was always a Plan B 👇

"I have to buy the token because it's a better product " It's always about the liquidity -

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A bank’s optimal book under GENIUS is simple. Hold deposits. That is your product. It funds the loan book, sits in the insured perimeter, and the customer already has an account you can credit. Tokenize that deposit if you want faster in-house movement. You have not left the garden. Run a thin stablecoin sleeve next to it. The sleeve is not inventory you want to grow. It is a conversion window. Customer needs to pay someone who has no account at your bank - burn the deposit (or debit the DDA), mint or buy the reserved coin, send it. Inbound coin hits - you take it, net it against what you sent, burn the residual back into a deposit before night. Morning cash position looks like a bank again. That netting only closes if both objects can meet on your books. Same house, two lines. BNY’s dual cage is the example: club DDA on one side, RLUSD custody on the other. Prime is the same idea with a broker wrapper. The stablecoin sleeve cannot go to zero because of the traveling-dollar cases. Those are the payments where there is no account left to credit inside the U.S. banking system. An agent with a key and no bank line. A Canton party that will not post your deposit token. A DTC twin delivered only to a participant wallet. CCP margin after the wire window. Escrow on a Saturday. A foreign deposit book. Self-custody. An atomic DVP where the asset can walk, so the money has to walk too. In every one of those, a deposit token is a check the next clerk will not take. Someone has to mint a reserved coin - GENIUS path: IDI subsidiary, OCC nonbank, certified state, or registered foreign. An insured bank cannot issue a GENIUS compliant stablecoin on its own books; it must either buy it from the sleeve, or from the PPSI next door. If the sleeve is empty and the mint window is closed, the customer is holding a credit you cannot deliver. The deposit book is fine. The payment fails. So the overnight target is still net-zero stablecoin. The capacity to mint cannot be zero. That capacity is the traveling dollar. Checkout lives on deposits. Landing lives on the sleeve.

75% of U.S. banks now have an active blockchain initiative. We partnered with @AmerBanker to survey 114 banks, credit unions, and neobanks. The results? Onchain finance is moving from theory to execution. Full report coming soon. More info → streetinsider.com/Pinion+New…

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For agents and banks, this opens clearer landing paths for reserved PPSI coins and tokenized deposits on regulated books, but still requires the right object at the participant The guidance is explicitly technology-neutral, allowing blockchain and DLT to satisfy recordkeeping rules while advancing tokenized collateral in derivatives market 👌

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SBI VCトレード、ステーキング報酬を円ステーブルコイン「JPYSC」で受取可能に news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/ff…

JPYSC stablecoin forming - one that can directly PvP with RLUSD

Sovereign stablecoins, and the Agents who will use them fall squarely into this conversation 👌

All aboard the New Money train. Green lights ahead.