EUR vs USD stablecoins is the wrong debate
Market structure and regulatory cohesion is at the centre of the stablecoin liquidity evolution, says Flow Traders’ digital assets head
The stablecoin debate is too often framed as a currency contest: euro versus dollar, or USD versus non-USD. That framing is politically intuitive, especially in Europe, but from a market structure perspective, it is incomplete.
Dollar stablecoins are not winning because they are philosophically superior to another. They are winning because one ecosystem is more liquid, more integrated, and easier
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