Yellen says the stablecoin market is still too small to pose systemic risk

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ICYMI: Yellen says the stablecoin market is still too small to pose systemic risk

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday that the stablecoin market has not yet reached a size that would pose a systemic risk to the US financial system.

In a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Jim Himes pressed Yellen on where the systemic risk would truly begin. At two trillion in market cap, Himes said he didn't think the space had broken the threshold."Although I can't say that they've reached the scale right now where they're a financial stability concern, we're seeing Terra having broken the buck and Tether under some pressure as well...

Yellen declined to give Himes a number at which the market would pose a systemic risk but said the use is rising rapidly and present run and payment system risks. She argued that the President's Working Group's

 

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