The Stablecoin Credit Crunch
A handful of stablecoin issuers are absorbing the lending role thousands of community banks used to play.
Executive Summary
The plumbing of the financial system, how money actually moves between savers, lenders, and borrowers, is changing in ways that have not yet been fully priced into macroeconomic thinking or investment strategy.
Stablecoins, framed publicly as a payments innovation, are quietly altering who controls capital allocation in the U.S. economy, and increasingly, the cost of that capital, even as their $307 billion in circulation remains a fraction of the $19.3 trillion held in U.S. commercial bank deposits.
The findings are not a forecast of a crisis. They are a documented trajectory already underway, one with consequences for regional banks, government financing, and portfolio construction that most investors have not yet had reason to consider.
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