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The FASB stablecoin ruling grants cash-equivalent status only to stablecoins redeemable directly with an issuer (not via an exchange) and backed by cash or T-bills, structurally excluding Tether and intermediated redemption paths like Coinbase.

“FASB according to this rule the answer can be yes stable coins are cash or cash equivalent if the following things are true. You can cash out whenever you want, which means you need a direct relationship with Circle basically or Paxos. you can you must cash out with the issuer itself, not a middleman. So you can't use Coinbase. You have to go straight to Circle. And also the issuer itself backs every coin with real cash or short-term T bills, which is just genius compliant, which means not Tether.”

Circle and Paxos are positioned as the primary beneficiaries of the FASB stablecoin ruling, as their direct-redemption model and T-bill backing satisfy the new cash-equivalent criteria that Tether fails.

“FASB according to this rule the answer can be yes stable coins are cash or cash equivalent if the following things are true. You can cash out whenever you want, which means you need a direct relationship with Circle basically or Paxos. you can you must cash out with the issuer itself, not a middleman. So you can't use Coinbase. You have to go straight to Circle. And also the issuer itself backs every coin with real cash or short-term T bills, which is just genius compliant, which means not Tether.”

Ryan Sean Adams on the FASB stablecoin ruling effectively excluding Tether from corporate balance-sheet treatment.

“FASB according to this rule the answer can be yes stable coins are cash or cash equivalent if the following things are true. You can cash out whenever you want, which means you need a direct relationship with Circle basically or Paxos. you can you must cash out with the issuer itself, not a middleman. So you can't use Coinbase. You have to go straight to Circle. And also the issuer itself backs every coin with real cash or short-term T bills, which is just genius compliant, which means not Tether.”

Jason Yanowitz on the shift from Bridge's fragmented stablecoin thesis to Circle's consolidation play.

“Bridge was like anyone should get a stable coin. This is like there should only be one stable coin.”

Banks, not Stripe, may be the larger competitive threat to Circle because the biggest stablecoin use cases (treasury management, capital markets, clearing) are bank-dominated.

“I think the banks are actually maybe the thing that we should be more worried about for circle than the than stripe because okay so maybe stripes wins a payment use case well you know the bigger use case today is treasury management and capital markets those are the bigger and like clearing those are the really big use cases and those markets are dominated by the banks and so you know there's I think real concern that the banks take a lot of a lot of that flow.”

Ondo Finance is worth watching as a leading tokenized equities platform, with Circle stock emerging as its highest-volume product, driven by speculative demand from Asian trader communities.

“Circle is surprisingly so the number one by a mile actually. apparently there's like trader groups in China that think it's the next Nvidia is what I was told.”

Hyperliquid is worth watching as it attracts institutional integration via Coinbase and Circle, with a structured token burn mechanism tied directly to partnership revenue.

“There's going to be like $450,000 of hype bought and burnt every day because of this proposal.”

Ian De Bode on Circle being the top tokenized stock on Ondo, driven by Chinese trader speculation.

“Circle is surprisingly so the number one by a mile actually. apparently there's like trader groups in China that think it's the next Nvidia is what I was told.”

Ending the Coinbase-Circle distribution deal would have been bullish for Circle stock, not bearish as most interpreted it. The deal was instead renewed on existing terms.

“It's much more much more sorry much more bullish circle stock if that had ended.”

The Coinbase and Circle partnership proposal on Hyperliquid is projected to generate roughly $450,000 in daily HYPE token buybacks and burns, growing Hyperliquid revenue by 25%.

“Hyperliquid revenue grows by 25%. There's going to be like $450,000 of hype bought and burnt every day because of this proposal.”