TREE NEWS reports: A Bank of England policy maker said digital dollars could expand access to the US currency while turning stablecoin issuers into larger buyers of US government debt. The remarks tie stablecoin growth to both greater dollar dominance and increased demand for Treasuries.
BoE Official: Stablecoin Growth Could Lift Dollar Dominance, Treasury Demand
The notable part is the framing: a UK central banker treating dollar stablecoins as a channel for extending dollar reach rather than as a threat to monetary sovereignty. That reframes the policy debate from containment toward supervision, since issuers scaling into reserve-backed Treasuries become a structural source of demand for US government debt. The open question is whether other central banks adopt the same lens or keep treating dollar stablecoins as a competitive problem for their own currencies.
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