00:00 Speaker A
US State banking associations plan to launch their own nationwide blockchain network.
00:05 Speaker A
The Bank chain Alliance. They literally just went ahead and called it bank chain.
00:09 Speaker A
Bank chain is aiming for a 2027 launch and would foster stable coins, payments and tokenized deposits inside the banking systems regulatory sphere.
00:18 Speaker A
So this is not a small thing. This is 39 state banking associations have joined the bank chain Alliance, which sounds like something evil out of Star Wars.
00:26 Speaker A
But the goal is a nationwide bank owned blockchain launching in 2027.
00:32 Speaker A
So this represents thousands of community and regional banks that do not want tokenized finance controlled entirely by crypto companies or mega banks.
00:41 Speaker A
That is the interesting part right here. So they haven’t even selected a technology partner. We don’t know what chain it’s going to be on. We don’t know if it’ll be a closed system, whether it’ll be interoperable or not, although they’ve said that they would like for it to be interoperable with other chains.
00:54 Speaker A
This is really interesting because they’re effectively in their mind, I think they’re wrong, but they’re getting squeezed, right?
01:03 Speaker A
You have the USDC and Circle of the world who have private stable coins, they’re absolutely crushing it, making tons of money. They didn’t have the JP Morgans and the large banks who obviously also are major competitors at this point to the regional banking system and they have their own plans and the regional banks and the local banks, the community banks are stuck in the middle.
01:22 Speaker A
Now I had, I had an Austin Campbell this morning on my 9:00 a.m. show. You should go back and listen to what he said about this story because he pointed out the fact that there’s absolutely no data that supports the idea
01:32 Speaker A
that stable coins will cause deposit flight from the big banks, which has been the major fight that was very highly publicized in December and on about the yield debate for the clarity Act.
01:42 Speaker A
Right? So there’s no evidence of that. But what has been killing over time regional and and uh community banks is deposit flight to the bigger banks and of course,
01:51 Speaker A
the fact that people don’t want to go into a bank branch anymore, right? They’re they’re losing their their they’re losing their customers to sofi and Robin Hood, and Coinbase, and all the digital apps that are purpose built for the younger generation because that generation does not understand the idea of going to the corner and having a relationship with your teller and getting cash out uh directly from the guy at the little glass window.
02:12 Speaker A
Right? So, stable coins are actually no threat in any way shape or form to these regional community banks. They’re just misinterpreting what’s actually happening and trying to build a competitive system.
02:22 Speaker A
But now we’re going to be completely, you know, bifurcated is two. Is there a word? Are we trifurcated?
02:28 Speaker A
We’re trifur- I feel like I’m trifurcating right now. I just trifurcated.
02:32 Speaker A
We’re trifurcating private banks, big banks, and these in the middle.
02:37 Speaker A
So right, you’ll remember that we reported on a story not that long ago about open USD, which was a consortium of all the big banks trying to compete. Everybody knows that stable coins are the future of financial infrastructure.
02:47 Speaker A
There’s just a major battle over who’s going to own those rails and how that will proliferate.
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